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[Making the Most of Your IDMI.Net Email Account] Making the Most of Your IDMI.Net Email Account

We at IDMI.Net want you to make the most of the products we offer, and that includes our email services. We have created thorough guides to setting up and using your email, available here. But to give you a quick preview, we’ll hit on some topics you may find interesting, beginning with some underutilized features that can make your email experience significantly better.

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[What You Should Know About Net Neutrality]

Over the last year, you’ve probably heard a lot of news about net neutrality. If you don’t fully understand the concept, you might not be sure exactly why it has set off such a political firestorm. But net neutrality is more than just a political issue—it affects everyone who uses the internet, individuals and businesses alike.

The general definition of net neutrality is that it is the idea that internet providers (like AT&T, Comcast and...

[Olympic Destroyer Malware Attack Grabs Headlines During Olympic Games]

Over the last several years, more people have become wise to issues associated with network and digital security and anti-malware protection. Malware is basically an umbrella term that covers a wide variety of attacks you might have heard of, such as computer viruses, trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, scareware and adware.

Any kind of software designed specifically for malicious or nefarious purposes can fall...

[An Overview of Spam Filters: Their Use & Importance]

Spam email is at best a nuisance and at worst a means for viruses and other malware to infect computers and devices. Unfortunately, spam is a reality that anyone with an email account must be prepared to deal with, especially businesses with networks that could be affected by malware intrusion.

Consider this: approximately 49.7 percent of all email messages sent in a day (some 269 billion) are spam. This makes it imperative to have...

[Utilizing ActiveSync With Your IDMI.Net Email]

ActiveSync is a protocol that will allow smartphones and tablets to synchronize their data with our mailboxes. We can provide this service as an add on to any of our email account plans.

ActiveSync allows users to immediately synchronize their emails, calendars and contacts across multiple devices. This means, your calendar and the information it contains will be immediately available and up to date on your phone, office computer, and our...

[Common WordPress Security Issues]

WordPress can be an outstanding and user-friendly web development platform, but like any other such platform, it is not completely immune to security issues.

Let’s take a look at some of the most common types of security problems that happen with WordPress:

- Brute force attacks: Brute force attacks are not particularly sophisticated, but they can be effective. They involve repeated trial and error entering of username and password combinations...

[Security Update: WPA & WPA2 Vulnerability]

Bulletin Summary

IDMI.Net is aware of a recent security bulletin for a flaw found in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) configurations that can allow a potential attacker within range of the wireless network to perform a key reinstallation attack (KRACK). This vulnerability is currently being tracked as CVE-2017-13080 which contains useful information and links to relevant technical resources.

What is the KRACK Attack?

The attack...

It has been brought to our attention that searching for email.idmi.net is bringing up a link in Google and Yahoo for another companies mail server. We are working with both vendors to resolve this issue, however when using our web interface to check your email, please be sure that the login page appears as follows:

If you feel that you have keyed your email address and password into a screen that does not look like this, we highly encourage you to change your password by following these...

[Securely Browsing the Internet]

More sites than ever now use SSL certificates to ensure a secure connection. This is mostly because Google recently made changes to the way its browser, Google Chrome, works with SSL certificates. Now, whenever you to go a site that has a login function and there is no SSL certificate, the browser will warn you about the lack of security.

As sites add SSL certificates and remove insecure protocols from their servers, clients running older operating...

[The Importance of Email Backups]

Data backup is one of the most important, yet also often one of the most ignored aspects of IT. Maintaining data is absolutely essential to helping a business run smoothly, and imperative to any business continuity plan.

In talking about “backing up” data, we are referring to making copies of the most important files you have in your email. If the original copy is somehow lost, you then have a backup available in a different location.

Data loss can...