What Is An IFrame And How Do You Instal One?

April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

An IFrame (Inline Frame) is an HTML document which is placed in another page of a website. One of their main uses is to import quickly and easily content from a different source into the “recipient” page. Typical examples include adverts or banners – in fact, they act in essence in the same way as an image, albeit that they are capable of being amended to operate apart from and distinct  to  the scrollbar of the page in which it is placed. Many mortgage lenders, brokers and others supply IFrames to affiliates to populate their on-page application forms. See an example here at http://www.blueskyloans.co.uk.

An IFrame can be altered without the need to reload the page in which it is embedded.

Installation is straightforward. The relevant code is simply copied and pasted into the host web page. You can see how it is done in the video below:

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What to Expect From Finance Software

April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Finance software can be used for both personal and business applications. It helps to keep all your finances in order and can help you set a budget for each thing you do. Finance software is very beneficial for businesses with more than one department and you want to put each department on a set budget. The software can even alert you when a department goes over their budget or when one of your accounts is approaching a low balance.

The Benefits

Finance software can help you keep track of multiple accounts at one glance. The program will allow you to place limits on certain accounts and will let you know when those accounts have reached a low limit. Businesses like using finance software because it can help them regulate how much money each department spends. This allows them to budget their money better and be more cost-effective. You can use the bill paying feature to help you pay you bill on time so you do not have anymore late fees. The most attractive feature to the finance software is the ease of tax time. Everything is already put into the program so all you have to do is send the whole thing to your accountant with one push of a button.

Finding the Right one

Finding the right finance software for what you want to do with it, will take some research. It should not be hard, but look at all possibilities before you choose just one. Finance software can be expensive depending on which type of program you need. You want to go over everything it can do and if you have any questions then ask someone. You do not want to waste money on buying a finance software program that will not handle everything you need it to. If you are unfamiliar with this, then ask your accountant for some advice. Your accountant probably uses a program and can give you a good idea about which one will be beneficial for you.

 Look at all the finance software programs you can before picking just one. You can even find some that will work for both your personal and business applications. There are many fine programs you can choose from, just make sure that it will have everything you need. Also consider how easy it is to use, you want to make sure that it will be something you understand how to use and not need assistance.

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A Software Development Success Story

March 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The world of software development is a competitive one, with companies everywhere vying with one another for business, sometimes at the expense of quality, so it is heartening to bring you news of one company that is forging a growing reputation for the quality of its work. Prog4Biz is a software development company concentrating primarily on the development of database solutions for companies large and small, including many well-known household names. Among the core products developed by the company are Customer Relationship Management tools to help increase productivity, drive sales and increase turnover, as well as Content Management Systems designed to make setting up and running websites simplicity itself, both for the owner/operator and for professional website creators alike.

Established over seven years ago, Prog4Biz software development boast operations in both Canada and in Israel, the business takes a holistic approach to its design work, often engaging with clients at the earliest stage of the process in order to get a true feel for their requirements, before taking projects all the way through to design, development and completion.

Part of the reason for developing and refining this approach to customers projects is that Prog4Biz recognise that in today’s ever more competitive business environment cost has become a major consideration for all, so they ensure they work with customers from the outset in order to achieve a solution which not only meets the needs and demands of each customer’s business operations, but just as importantly fits in with their budget.

 

 

 

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Case Study of DDoS Protection by BlockDos against Malicious Threat on Solid Trust Pay

March 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

In the following case study released February 23, 2013, distributed denial of service protection services provider BlockDos summarized how it provided protection against multiple SYN and HTTP and later UDP floods targeting Solid Trust Pay that provide support in monitoring online performance of businesses. Solid Trust Pay provides EWallet services and direct merchant credit card processing. The case study outlines the growing aggression of the attackers who set up the DDoS attacks that provoked website performance issues on Solid Trust Pay’s Internet infrastructure.

Background:

2012 was a year of alarming statistics regarding malicious DDoS attacks on vulnerable online businesses, making DDoS protection a major issue.  From October through December, there was an exponentially large increase in occurrence and potency. Nonetheless, the more dangerous and disturbing factor is that organizations were and are not ready to ward off these attacks, and as a result, they suffer and will suffer from infrastructure failures, loss of revenue, and loss of customers to more prepared competitors.

Challenge:

Solid Trust Pay- a privately held company develops in-house reporting methods that simplify the benchmarking process used to monitor online positioning performance of businesses facing DDoS attacks. In the beginning, small DDoS attacks occurred on a regular basis, but the disruption felt minimal. The IT team of Solid Trust Pay attempted to determine the problem, but they were not able pinpoint the core of the situation. With the passage of time, the attacks became far more complicated in nature such as SYN and HTTP types and later UDP flood type. Soon, Solid Trust Pay received an anonymous note, asking for an extensive amount of money in order to end the malicious attacks.

Solid Trust Pay made a prompt decision to get rid of the more than annoying situation and engaged BlockDoS to nip the attack. There were two main challenges: 1) To stop the DDoS attack 2) To resume and bring back the ability of Solid Trust Pay to conduct business again as normal.

Solution:

BlockDoS immediately applied its DDoS protection solutions and global scrubbing centers via multiple filters in place and different layers in different places in response. The company used a mitigation plan based upon the network to scrutinize the traffic before it reached Solid Trust Pay’s location. When the system found legitimate traffic, it was routed to Solid Trust Pay website; if not, then BlockDoS technology executed a technology that blocked the relevant origination points forever.

To meet the second challenge and resume business immediately, BlockDoS elected to use its own protection tunnel and routed all traffic through BlockDoS’ secured firewalls. All traffic was filtered through BlockDoS’ defense and protection system. It enabled BlockDoS to stop the DDoS attacks and resume the ability of Solid Trust Pay to recommence their business, retain customers, and generate revenues.

Result and Goal:

By engaging BlockDoS to protect from DDoS attacks, Solid Trust Pay was able to eliminate the attack and disperse the ransom threat. E-commerce (all that conduct business over the Internet) and in particular, finance and SaaS companies, are often targeted with highly organized and therefore, massive bandwidth DDoS attacks in excess of 50 Gbps in late 2012. From October through December 2012 and continuing through early 2013, BlockDoS has protected against an increasing number of DDoS attacks for its global customer base. Although BlockDoS does realistically note the increase in the scale and diversity of DDoS attacks, its goal is to see the day when they are permanently blocked and eliminated.

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Choosing A Hackproof Password

February 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Locked out of your email again? Frustrating isn’t it? What you need is a password that’s not only easy to remember but just as importantly is hard to crack. This, incidentally, rules out the world famous – or should that be notorious -  ‘password’. It tops a list of the most commonly used passwords that you will probably not be surprised to learn includes number 1-6, letters a-f, letmein and password1 and, if they were not simple enough to crack in the first place, they are also all online for hackers to see.

And it’s not just your personal email accounts you need to pay attention to, but any business ones as well, whether you are a solicitor,  a carpet cleaner or a firm of locksmiths, it’s essential to keep your business free from hackers.

To come up with a password which will have the hackers confounded, opt for six or more jumbled characters based on a meaningful sentence or line of poetry, ideally with a mix of upper and lowercase letters and numbers, as well as something like a punctuation mark, just to round things off. Pick a phrase like ‘I want to go to America”, and use the first letter of every word except for ‘to’ which becomes ‘2’. You will then up with ‘Iw2g2A’ which won’t make sense to anyone else, but has the advantage of being easy enough to remember.

Obviously you should use different passwords for different sites 0- that really should go without saying. But do not worry that you will have to remember a plethora of different passwords. Once you’ve chosen your master password, you can customise it for different websites. Add the first and last letters of the company name at each end (so, for instance, when logging onto Amazon, it would be Aiw2g2An) and even if it’s hacked, your other accounts will stay secure.

Image “Lens Password” by Salvatore Vuono, courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net

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