Just because it’s small doesn’t mean your business is immune to security breaches and hacker attacks. In fact, small businesses tend to be even more at risk, because they are less likely to take steps to protect themselves. Yet securing your small business doesn’t have to be complicated. Avoid these four common security mistakes, and you can feel better about your business’ security

The file that actually handles WHM > DNS Functions > Nameserver IPs area is at /var/cpanel/nameserverips.yaml location.

If you want this to be changed, you’d want to make a backup of that file first and then modify it:

cd /var/cpanel
cp nameserverips.yaml nameserverips.yaml.bak110112
nano nameserverips.yaml

AUSWEB’s phone support will be closing for Christmas break from Friday 16th December at 5PM AEST until Monday the 9th January 2012.

As always , our online support team is operating normal, available 24×7 via your AUSWEB Client Area -

http://ausweb.com.au/helpdesk

Phone sales & support will be available again Monday the 9th January 2012.

Once again the extended AUSWEB Sales & Support family would like to wish all of our loyal customers a Merry Christmas & safe New Year!

Dell has taken its 7-inch Streak Android tablet out of commission, according to its website. While some retail sites still have stock, the company no longer offers the Streak for sale from its own website and will no longer produce it. The Dell Android tablet species is officially extinct in the US.

Security in WordPress is taken very seriously, but as with any other system there are potential security issues that may arise if some basic security precautions aren’t taken. This article will go through some common forms of vulnerabilities, and the things you can do to help keep your WordPress installation secure.

This article is not the ultimate quick fix to your security concerns. If you have specific security concerns or doubts, you should discuss them with people whom you trust to have sufficient knowledge of computer security and WordPress.

Now that you know about us, from us – this page is dedicated to what our customers think

http://tutorials.ausweb.com.au/web-hosting/customer-testimonials/customer-testimonials.html

You could be forgiven for thinking that Ripples is just another new feature that makes little difference to social networkers (the new ‘activity’ tab on Twitter, anyone?), but you would be wrong. Ripples can give you an inordinately powerful amount of information if you use it correctly. It’s not the most straightforward of features because of its capabilities but it’s something you ought to be using as part of your marketing strategy.

This recognition serves as testimony to Equinix’s market leadership, operational excellence and service innovation.
Equinix are honored to be regarded as best-in-class in the Australia marketplace and AUSWEB is proud to be colocated in Australia’s leading data center

Very enlightening video, albeit a little old about rel=canonical to tackle the dark side of CMS software’s link automation…what are your thoughts?

AUSWEB’s Spring 2011 Promotion – 25% OFF

We love a good bargain as much as the next person. Spring is traditionally a season of renewal, but also a time to pursue new opportunities – for business or pleasure. It is a good time to learn a new skill, acquire a new hobby and take a fresh new direction with your business.

Between September 25th and October 31st, AUSWEB will be running our 25% off web hosting Spring promotion for the products below:

Spring Hosting Sale 25% OFF – SPRING2011
	cPanel Web Hosting The perfect entry level hosting solution	$9.95/m
	cPanel Ecommerce Hosting eCommerce Hosting includes 256 bit SSL certificate, free shopping cart software and lots more	$713/year
	Reseller Hosting The fully featured Reseller Hosting plan allows you to host and manage multiple websites/users under one large master account	$49.50/m
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Simply enter SPRING2011 at checkout to receive a massive 25% discount. That is a whole season of the year for free. You can use the saved dosh to to throw a picnic in the park, go to the movies, or stock up on hayfever medication. There is no limit of orders per customer, or duration of registration.

Mary Roach writes for CircleID:

While typosquatting is not a new phenomenon, recent research highlights that it is being used to collect sensitive corporate information from employees and lure consumers to interact with dubious websites.

Typosquatting, as many of you might already be familiar with, is a type of cybersquatting where cybercriminals register a domain name that closely resembles a well-known site or brand, often taking advantage of common typos people make while typing in URLs. Once a user unknowingly types in a typosquatted domain or uses a typosquatted domain in an email address, unintended events begin to happen.

Security consultancy Godai Group recently uncovered the use of a specific type of typosquat — a “doppelganger domain” — to collect sensitive enterprise information via email-based attacks. A doppelganger domain is one that is not misspelled, but instead is missing a dot between the subdomain and domain. An example would be “mailyahoo.com,” which targets Yahoo!’s popular mail service “mail.yahoo.com.” The researchers found that 30% of the Fortune 500 (or 151 corporations) were susceptible to doppelganger domain-based attacks.

Read more at CircleID after the break…

Hey folks. We are now using Twitter actively for public queries and networking (but if you prefer support in private, our helpdesk is our primary channel for communication)

Follow us for exclusive promos, news, latest Ausweb goss or just give us a shout to tell us what you think via @auswebhosting!

There is a time when things go wrong and your site might feel a little unwell. You might experience various browser complaints, unpredictable behaviour and nonspecific browsing discomfort. The good news is, you can reverse those signs of aging (really).

The HTML5 Doctor is there to help. Consult the Doc to make it all better via the link below…

Garry Przyklenk writes for SearchEngineWatch.com:

Having worked in online marketing and web analytics for nearly a decade, I’ve heard it all when it comes to myths passed around small and large companies alike. Here is a top 10 list of my favorite web analytics myths and practical advice on how to dispel them.
1. Free Analytics Software is Just as Good as Enterprise Analytics

There are several reasons why free software is never the best solution. Some of my favorite retorts to “why do we use Omniture rather than Google Analytics” often involve witty comebacks like “because I have to pay the bills” or “because my boss said so.”

Freelance PHP consultant Lorna Jane Mitchell explains why PHP’s bad reputation is unwarranted, explodes some popular myths and suggests some excellent resources along the way

PHP has the reputation of being the poor cousin of scripting languages, due to outdated language features and plenty of poor quality code written using it. I use PHP as my main programming language and it’s seen waves of change over the last five years; it’s so much more than a language for script kiddies and hobbyist hackers. There are some ‘truths’ about the language that aren’t true these days, so I’d like to bring you a little update.

Nobody wants to get hacked. But when it comes to choosing a password, there are key steps you can take to reduce your risk of data intrusions from unwanted virtual visitors. This article will teach you how to make a strong, safe password that’s easy to remember — and how to reduce your odds of being an easy target for hackers.

1. Worst Passwords
In 2009, a major hack on social gaming site RockYou revealed some troubling patterns in how we choose our passwords. The Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC), a security research group, examined the passwords of RockYou’s clients to see just what went wrong. The study found that more than 29,000 of the compromised accounts were using the password “123456″ — the most popular password. The second and third most common passwords were also strings of consecutive numbers. And the fourth most common password? “Password.” Other popular passwords from the RockYou case include “iloveyou,” “abc123,” and a handful of common first names like “Ashley” and “Michael.”

Mark Buckingham writes for .Net Magazine:

Search marketing consultant Mark Buckingham destroys his 10 favourite search engine optimisation myths and asks leading experts such as Google’s Matt Cutts and Search Engine Land’s Matt McGee for their opinion

Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’ve dabbled with SEO to varying levels of success; from minor frustration to Google gratification. Whatever your experience, myths still abound the oft-laboured carousel of search engine optimisation: at its best, a well planned, ongoing strategy in the pursuit of visibility and primed accessibility, underpinning, informing and complimenting exemplary design usability and content. At its worst, a dark art, misunderstood, an unwieldy afterthought, a quick fix that did you more harm than good.

For truly effective SEO, working in tandem with good design, content creation and general business practice; look beyond the dashboard for the route to success.

Let’s look at 10 of my personal perennial favourite SEO myths.

Writing about a blog in a blog…never fear netizens, the space time continuum of the Internets will not break.

What if your blog was the target of a rookie hacker, honing his skills to make it to the big leagues? All of your hard work building a better blog, growing traffic and readership, and making money with your blog would be jeopardized—or, worse, lost forever.

Thankfully, WordPress is pretty secure out of the box and they provide frequent security updates. Even better are the following super-simple actions that you can take to make WordPress ten times more secure. (Not scientifically verified! Your mileage may vary.)

To read on, follow the link after the break…

Sam Quayle considers new developments, tools and, most importantly, the techniques you can use to improve page loading times and grasp your users’s diminishing attention

Two seconds. According to a study undertaken by Google and Bing in 2009, that’s how long it takes before a page’s load time can have a ‘serious negative impact’ on repeat usage, potential revenue, user engagement and customer satisfaction. These findings are now two years old. Today we find ourselves catering for users accustomed to even faster connection speeds, real-time data delivery and instant searches.