Website Security – A Tale of Woe

GroupSupport was approached by a valued client in 2022 to assist with making some changes to their websitenormally managed in-house by the client.

While scoping the work, the GroupSupport team discovered over 750 published, live but unauthorised posts, created by a 'black hat' (hacker) using credentials harvested from a hack on a separate business. These pages were causing the Google ranking of the site to plummet, but the client didn't know why.

We confirmed that these posts and pages had been injected using valid login credentials. The pages contained all manner of horrible content including pornography, links to gambling sites, spam and phishing sites and advertisements for medications, to name a few. But because the authorisation was used, the pages avoided being detected by the automatic scanning / security firewall the client had installed.

The GroupSupport team removed the foreign pages and other material from the website, upgraded the authentication requirements and put the site on our maintenance plan. Our work also included assistance to the client by changing the same credentials used on other platforms.

This scenario is a perfect example of why regular maintenance of your website is needed, by experienced operators outside of your business, work that should include more than just a check on credential security.

With the rest, get an experienced VA (Virtual Assistant) to do the grunt work in combination with a good CRM. Or outsource specialist tasks to an agency partner i.e. Bookkeeper. Click here to read the whole article.

Calcium in Perth Water is Distressful for Residents

"We can't get over how hard Perth water is!" This is a comment we hear regularly from people who are in Perth from Victoria, New South Wales, Europe and Bali.

It is costly putting up with this level of calcium in our Perth water.

Costly to our health – skin, hair and kidneys. (Hard water can contribute to kidney stones!)

Costly to our home – it means we must replace appliances more often

High Calcium/limescale in Perth Water:

Costly to the environment –adding to landfill.

These costs can be radically reduced, by filtering the water coming into your home. We invite you to change your story (and your hard water) now!

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We would love to show you how you can enjoy Perth water with our simple filtration system!