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09/27/2024

Own a business in Georgia? You need to explore another government-forced requirement with a general deadline of January 1, 2025. Learn about: Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting

Sent by the GA Secretary of State Corporations Division

Dear Business Owner or Representative:

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was passed by the United States Congress to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The CTA establishes a beneficial ownership information reporting requirement for corporations, limited liability companies, and other similar entities created or registered to do business in the United States. The beneficial ownership information reports must be filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U.S. Department of Treasury. Reporting companies that were formed or registered prior to January 1, 2024, must file an initial beneficial ownership information report by January 1, 2025. Reporting companies that were formed on or after January 1, 2024, must file a beneficial ownership information report within 90 calendar days of notice of formation. Reporting companies that were formed on or after January 1, 2025, must file a beneficial ownership information report within 30 calendar days of notice of formation. Beneficial ownership information reports are filed at https://www.fincen.gov/boi.

The requirement to report beneficial ownership and other information about the business directly to FinCEN applies to most businesses registered with our office. As it is important for our office to assist businesses in our state, we want to inform you of this new reporting requirement as failure to comply may result in significant civil and criminal penalties. We encourage you to review the information found here: https://www.fincen.gov/boi.

Our office is not collecting this information, nor do we have access to the information reported to FinCEN. The Secretary of State’s staff cannot provide information, advice, or legal counsel regarding FinCEN’s beneficial ownership information reporting requirements. Please contact FinCEN if you have any questions or concerns:

Phone number: 1-800-767-2825
Website: https://www.fincen.gov/contact

Sincerely,

Georgia Secretary of State’s Office

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UPDATED: Per Lexology.com, "On March 1, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama held that the Corporate Transparency Act ("CTA")--which requires most reporting companies to file a beneficial ownership information report ("BOIR") with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN")--is unconstitutional as beyond Congress's authority. Our prior memorandum (which can be found here) gives further detail about the CTA's requirements."

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7378c2a2-9e18-4436-9860-a2ed0b35a704

FinCEN has been receiving calls and reports of financial scam attempts.  If you have received an unsolicited communication from someone via phone, text, or email claiming to represent or be an employee of FinCEN, it is a scam and you should not respond.  You may contact the Treasury’s Office of ...

01/06/2024

Can your Google account be hacked even with a strong password?

‘Exploit enables continuous access to Google services, even after a user’s password is reset,’ researcher warns

12/03/2023

GOOGLE has started deleting inactive Gmail accounts. Will this affect your business? Yes, it may affect your business.

If you established Google Business Products, and no longer use the associated Gmail account, your products will disappear with it. This could be Analytics, Voice, Search Console, and more.

Also, if you have customers that have posted reviews, and their inactive email accounts are deleted, any such reviews will disappear.

Learn more here >>

You'll need to take action to keep your inactive Google account from being purged.

08/22/2023

https://insiderpaper.com/ai-can-steal-passwords-with-95-accuracy-by-listening-to-keystrokes-study/

A recent study has revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) tools could be exploited by malicious actors to effectively pilfer user

08/11/2023

Wordpress website? You'll be prompted to upgrade to WordPress version 6.3. Always perform a full site backup before upgrading WordPress. As for 6.3, they boast of a LOT of great improvements. Here's what they are saying about version 6.3 ...

What's New
+ Do everything in the Site Editor: WordPress 6.3 brings your content, templates, and patterns together in the Site Editor for the first time.
+ Preview Block themes: Experience block themes before you switch and preview the Site Editor, with options to customize directly before committing to a new theme.
+ Create and sync patterns: Arrange blocks and save them to the ‘My Patterns’ section for use throughout your site.
+ Work faster with the Command Palette: Switch to a specific template or open your editor preferences with a new tool that helps you quickly access expanded functionality.
+ Sharpen your designs with new tools: New design controls bring more versatility for fine-tuning, starting with the ability to customize your captions from the Styles interface without coding.
+ Track design changes with Style revisions: With a new audit trail, you can now see how your site looked at a specific time.
+ Annotate with the Footnotes block: Footnotes add convenient annotations throughout your content. Now you can add and link footnotes for any paragraph.
+ Show or hide content with the Details block: Use the Details block to avoid spoiling a surprise, create an interactive Q&A section, or hide a long paragraph under a heading.
+ Performance gets a boost: WordPress 6.3 has 170+ performance updates, including defer and async support for the Scripts API and fetchpriority support for images.
+ Accessibility remains a core focus: Incorporating more than 50 accessibility improvements across the platform, WordPress 6.3 is more accessible than ever.

06/27/2023

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/06/wordfence-7-10-0-released-changes/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=263408901&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9bGJJcXuTTPrR8s6FxHrLzKXtjCL25nBOCn9ASyNldk16shjVcZFEWr30BfCClZ6T2h2sxP7RgbMa0672N72w0B9v3qOLvQsRowNlUgm6G40U-XAU&utm_content=263408901&utm_source=hs_email

Wordfence remains the number one security plugin of choice for website owners serious about protecting their investment and their customers. Our Threat Intelligence team and engineering team stay abreast of the newest threats and ensure that Wordfence is able to protect against them. But keeping a p...

03/29/2023

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02/10/2023

GOOGLE ALGORITHM UPDATES 2022:

The "Helpful Content" update from the last half of 2022 seems to have settled. What did it do? Per an article at SearchEngineLand, "The helpful content update will target websites that have a relatively high amount of unsatisfying or unhelpful content, where the content has been written for search engines rather than humans. " In the overall ranking landscape it had quite an effect, but generally only on websites with lower quality content. For the record, we do NOT use AI generated content. Google has specifically stated using AI generated content will cause your website/pages to be demoted.

The "Spam and Link Spam" update from Octobercleaned out a LOT of junk pages from search results pages. Websites with spammy backlinks may have experienced a drop in rankings, or had sites with better backlink profiles to move ahead of them. A key method we use to avoid these issues is use of a Disavow File which disassociates a client'w website with low quality links.

There were (are) a lot of ongoing algorithm adjustments every year. Check back on our page to learn more.

02/17/2022

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Google's Chrome browser may break some websites on March 29, and Mozilla Firefox on May 3, 2022. At this time, there is not enough information known to take proactive measures or know how to correct any browser-related problems. We do not think that this will impact any AMP pages.

Google and Mozilla are warning that Chrome may break some websites from March 29, and Firefox on May 3. The reason? The version numbers… Bleeping Computer explains. Mozilla is warning website developers that the upcoming Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 versions may break websites when parsing user-agen...

05/01/2020

Protect your branded ID. A company called Yoshki can find unauthorized use of your logo, and will issue a DMCA takedown notice to the offending website.

Inversely, if your website is using logos without permission or legitimate authority your website can be taken down by your hosting company. Always make certain you have permission and/or rights to use any logo on your website.

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