{"id":57260,"date":"2026-08-18T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/ie\/?p=57260"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:05:20","slug":"business-security-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/ie\/business-security-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Your Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='familiarity'  class='avia-section av-2qwy3ht-8a2c23e8b96a4ca6a0ee5518929c44bc main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-57260'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jp009ut1-c2a891abf735c7eb7a5c24d037e4b61f\">\n.flex_column.av-jp009ut1-c2a891abf735c7eb7a5c24d037e4b61f{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-jp009ut1-c2a891abf735c7eb7a5c24d037e4b61f av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-hide-on-mobile av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-28z32gh-8306082e681bdb1a559cb023abad5737\">\n.flex_column.av-28z32gh-8306082e681bdb1a559cb023abad5737{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-28z32gh-8306082e681bdb1a559cb023abad5737 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-1txvxe9-3461d3daee65744295e6faf23d8cd461 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>Cover your assets: five things to protect in twenty minutes<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your website matters. So do these five, and almost nobody checks them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-v4g6ak-1d639df38b074c4c8eeb90b09a79d152\">\n.av_font_icon.av-v4g6ak-1d639df38b074c4c8eeb90b09a79d152 .av-icon-char{\nfont-size:1em;\nline-height:1em;\n}\n<\/style>\n<span  class='av_font_icon av-v4g6ak-1d639df38b074c4c8eeb90b09a79d152 avia_animate_when_visible av-icon-style- avia-icon-pos-left av-no-color avia-icon-animate'><span class='av-icon-char' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue862' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' ><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<em><strong>approx 5 minute read<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jp00gvdr-98d064f8eb1dbe52dc1f9fd3cb904193\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-jp00gvdr-98d064f8eb1dbe52dc1f9fd3cb904193{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-jp00gvdr-98d064f8eb1dbe52dc1f9fd3cb904193 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-1txvxe9-15-6448e305b30fcbd83af991cf399930f4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Two huge companies, one very simple trick<\/h2>\n<p>Between 2013 and 2015, Google and Facebook paid out $122 million to one man sending invoices from a company he had invented.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody went near either website.<\/p>\n<p>That is the whole point of this article. Two of the best defended companies on earth, and the way in was an email address that looked close enough.<\/p>\n<p>Your website is one door into your business. It matters, and we have written plenty about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/ie\/set-and-forget-website\/\">keeping everything up to date<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it is one door.<\/p>\n<p>Your business has several others, and most of them have never had so much as a glance. They are not exciting. There is no industry selling you fear about them. Which is exactly why they get missed.<\/p>\n<p>So here they are. Five assets that sit outside your website, what actually goes wrong with each one, and a check you can run today.<\/p>\n<p>Most take about two minutes. Twenty for the lot.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-wvabp2-157fc1978a540923296cc02c39fd8477\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-wvabp2-157fc1978a540923296cc02c39fd8477{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-wvabp2-157fc1978a540923296cc02c39fd8477 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_image '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mrw2bn1l-60e7b51c40036f18f09dc6c92dcf44cb\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mrw2bn1l-60e7b51c40036f18f09dc6c92dcf44cb img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mrw2bn1l-60e7b51c40036f18f09dc6c92dcf44cb .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mrw2bn1l-60e7b51c40036f18f09dc6c92dcf44cb av-styling- avia-align-  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='avia-img-lazy-loading-not- avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Stressed-Business-Woman.jpg\" alt='' title=''   itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msoiv379-684f62ee4a20a972f9e30595be014cad\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-msoiv379-684f62ee4a20a972f9e30595be014cad{\nheight:100px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-msoiv379-684f62ee4a20a972f9e30595be014cad hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-me8idh-8097f8069a25a1b58ef08497608c2f31 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-67574 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Domains.png\" alt=\"Book of domains icon\" width=\"120\" height=\"137\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 120px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 120\/137;\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>#1<\/strong> Your domain name<\/h2>\n<p>Your domain is the only thing on this list you genuinely cannot replace.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else can be rebuilt. If your domain lapses and somebody else registers it, your website, your email and years of built-up search visibility all leave together.<\/p>\n<p>It happens far more often than you would think, and never for dramatic reasons. Usually it is a card that expired. Or auto-renew switched off years ago by someone who has since left. Or renewal reminders going to an email address nobody reads anymore.<\/p>\n<p>There is a grace period after expiry. After that, the domain goes to auction. And there is a whole industry of people watching for expiring domains that already have traffic.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msojep51-7ae571da1df3f72709522767247e18db\">\n.av_promobox.av-msojep51-7ae571da1df3f72709522767247e18db{\nbackground-color:rgba(151,199,0,0.05);\nborder-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av_promobox av-msojep51-7ae571da1df3f72709522767247e18db avia-button-no  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Check this today:<\/strong><br \/>\nLog in to wherever your domain is registered. Confirm the expiry date. Confirm auto-renew is switched on. Confirm the card on file has not expired. Add a backup. Then check which email address the renewal reminders go to. If it belongs to someone who left in 2021, fix that first.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msoitce1-b582c1057551a9810c79102998b89824\">\n#top .hr.av-msoitce1-b582c1057551a9810c79102998b89824{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:60px;\n}\n.hr.av-msoitce1-b582c1057551a9810c79102998b89824 .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-msoitce1-b582c1057551a9810c79102998b89824 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_textblock  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-msoioxc3-89107859b9b69292937a7b7b4ecf690c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-67575 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Email.png\" alt=\"Email icon\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 120px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 120\/90;\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>#2<\/strong> Business email<\/h2>\n<p>This is the one UK businesses genuinely get caught by.<br \/>\nThe government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/cyber-security-breaches-survey-20252026\/cyber-security-breaches-survey-20252026\">Cyber Security Breaches Survey<\/a> for 2025\/26 found that 43% of UK businesses reported a breach or attack in the previous twelve months. Phishing was the most common type by a distance, affecting 38% of businesses. Of those hit by anything at all, 69% said phishing was the most disruptive thing that happened to them.<\/p>\n<p>Scaled up, that is around 612,000 UK businesses. Not exotic attacks. Emails.<\/p>\n<p>Invoice fraud runs in two directions, and they need different answers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Someone pretending to be you:<br \/>\n<\/strong>They email your customer, apologise for the confusion, and supply new bank details. Your customer pays. You never see the money, and you have a difficult phone call ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>This one is technical, and it is fixable. There are three settings on your domain that make you much harder to impersonate. They are called SPF, DKIM and DMARC. You do not need to understand how they work. You just need to know whether you have them, because a domain without them is far easier to spoof. Most small businesses have none of the three and have never been told they exist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Someone pretending to be your supplier:<br \/>\n<\/strong>This is the more common one, and it catches out businesses of every size. An invoice arrives from a company you genuinely buy from, and the bank details have changed.<\/p>\n<p>No setting on your domain stops this. Look again at what happened to Google and Facebook. Nothing was hacked and nothing was spoofed. A real company was registered under a plausible name, and it sent real invoices from real email addresses. There is no technical control that catches that.<\/p>\n<p>What catches it is a rule. Bank details never change on the say-so of an email. If a supplier\u2019s details change, you ring them on the number you already had, not the one printed on the invoice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msojj1gf-ca94847517f8901b264bf3d0568a8b4d\">\n.av_promobox.av-msojj1gf-ca94847517f8901b264bf3d0568a8b4d{\nbackground-color:rgba(151,199,0,0.05);\nborder-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av_promobox av-msojj1gf-ca94847517f8901b264bf3d0568a8b4d avia-button-no  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Check this today:<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo things. First, find a free DMARC checker online (MXToolbox is a common one), type in your domain and see what comes back. Thirty seconds. If it reports nothing configured, that is worth a conversation with whoever looks after your email. Second, agree the rule with whoever pays your invoices. Changed bank details get verified by phone. Every time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-18yswsl-415365b1622d63aca6b5760724f5bab6\">\n#top .hr.av-18yswsl-415365b1622d63aca6b5760724f5bab6{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:60px;\n}\n.hr.av-18yswsl-415365b1622d63aca6b5760724f5bab6 .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-18yswsl-415365b1622d63aca6b5760724f5bab6 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_textblock  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-58ppqd-3709ebdcc3efac035f3f955122908808 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-67576 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Google.png\" alt=\"Goggle logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"122\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 120px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 120\/122;\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>#3<\/strong> Your Google Business profile<\/h2>\n<p>For a local business, this can sometimes be worth more than the website.<\/p>\n<p>It is what appears in Maps and in local search results, carrying your opening hours, your phone number, your photos and your reviews.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a target. Competitors and scammers can attempt to claim ownership of a profile. Google emails the registered owner when that happens, and that email very often goes to an address nobody monitors.<\/p>\n<p>The reviews are the part that really stings. Years of them, gone.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msojp28p-192cbe8faf5f58cc57969f120f454f47\">\n.av_promobox.av-msojp28p-192cbe8faf5f58cc57969f120f454f47{\nbackground-color:rgba(151,199,0,0.05);\nborder-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av_promobox av-msojp28p-192cbe8faf5f58cc57969f120f454f47 avia-button-no  avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Check this today:<\/strong><br \/>\nFirstly, make sure you have claimed your own listing. Then sign in to your Google Business Profile and look at who has access. Check both owners and managers. If there is an old agency, an ex-employee or an account you do not recognise, remove them. While you are in there, check the opening hours are still correct.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-j60p39-6746cf0a804ceb53c526e9c0e459cb0c\">\n#top .hr.av-j60p39-6746cf0a804ceb53c526e9c0e459cb0c{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:60px;\n}\n.hr.av-j60p39-6746cf0a804ceb53c526e9c0e459cb0c .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-j60p39-6746cf0a804ceb53c526e9c0e459cb0c hr-custom  avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_textblock  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-msop9zep-c8cfd10d24324e0c78d14b3774e89df2 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-67573 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Account.png\" alt=\"Account and gear icon\" width=\"120\" height=\"109\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 120px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 120\/109;\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>#4<\/strong> The account that controls everything<\/h2>\n<p>Somewhere there is an email address that can reset the password to almost everything else you own. Your domain. Your hosting. Your website login. Your Google account. Possibly your bank.<\/p>\n<p>That address is the master key.<\/p>\n<p>For a lot of small businesses, it is a personal Gmail account with a password chosen in 2016, which has also been used on nine other websites, at least two of which have since been breached.<\/p>\n<p>The most secure website in the world does not help if someone can log into the email account that controls it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msope39t-056edacc7c9dbe988222eba1aee3dddf\">\n.av_promobox.av-msope39t-056edacc7c9dbe988222eba1aee3dddf{\nbackground-color:rgba(151,199,0,0.05);\nborder-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av_promobox av-msope39t-056edacc7c9dbe988222eba1aee3dddf avia-button-no  avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Check this today:<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo things. First, put two factor authentication on that email account if it is not already there. Second, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\">haveibeenpwned.com<\/a>, type the address in, and see which breaches it has appeared in. It is free, it is legitimate, and the results are usually sobering.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-pv7e91-b15c0f9f1f4fc31117b96e9d62c280d6\">\n#top .hr.av-pv7e91-b15c0f9f1f4fc31117b96e9d62c280d6{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:60px;\n}\n.hr.av-pv7e91-b15c0f9f1f4fc31117b96e9d62c280d6 .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-pv7e91-b15c0f9f1f4fc31117b96e9d62c280d6 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_promobox  el_before_av_textblock  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-msopg8e6-e2100d7ef39165df82fd0c59e40c43f0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-67577 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nettl.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Social.png\" alt=\"Social icon\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 120px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 120\/120;\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>#5<\/strong> Your social accounts<\/h2>\n<p>The problems here are boring ones. One person has access and they left last year. There is no two factor authentication. The Facebook page is tied to somebody\u2019s personal profile rather than a business account. Nobody can remember the login for the account you set up in 2019 and then abandoned. Business profiles on Meta platforms are notoriously difficult to reclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, abandoned accounts matter more than people expect. If somebody gets into a dormant profile with your name on it, they are posting as you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more likely that phishing scams are set up in the name of Meta, pretending there is a problem with your page. But this is often just a ploy to get you to enter your login credentials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msophlue-34690f6e32c77327ecf25ff27903cb87\">\n.av_promobox.av-msophlue-34690f6e32c77327ecf25ff27903cb87{\nbackground-color:rgba(151,199,0,0.05);\nborder-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av_promobox av-msophlue-34690f6e32c77327ecf25ff27903cb87 avia-button-no  avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><div class='avia-promocontent'><p>\n<strong>Check this today:<\/strong><br \/>\nList every social account your business has, including the ones you never use. For each one, work out who has access and whether two factor is switched on. Close anything you have genuinely abandoned. 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We look after WordPress sites, keep them updated, monitor them, back them up.<\/p>\n<p>A care plan does not do any of the above.<\/p>\n<p>It will not renew a forgotten domain. It will not stop someone spoofing your email address. It will not protect your Google Business Profile, or your social accounts, or the personal Gmail that unlocks the lot.<\/p>\n<p>A locked front door is not much use if the window is open.<\/p>\n<p>The five checks on this page are free, and between them they take about twenty minutes. Do them this week and you will have covered ground most business owners never look at once.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ii0xbq-b36a0040014f008d774e78f6035f218f\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-ii0xbq-b36a0040014f008d774e78f6035f218f{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-ii0xbq-b36a0040014f008d774e78f6035f218f hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mrvtt84r-f8db485345e18afa8772917650d29603 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>One last thing<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you work through that list and something looks off, or you are not even sure where your domain is registered, just ask. 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