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The Plan Year 2025 Open Enrollment period for West Virginia University benefits-eligible faculty and staff is underway and will run through Wednesday, May 15. Open Enrollment is the only time of the year to add, drop or make changes to your benefits without a qualifying life event. The following are some options to help answer your questions:  Stop by one of two Open Enrollment drop-in sessions to chat with a benefits specialist: April 25, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Mountainlair, Greenbrier Room April 30, from 1 to 4:30 p.m., Health Sciences Center Pylons Visit a Shared Services Storefront from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday at one of the following locations to video chat with a specialist: Mountainlair, Room G4A (Closed from noon to 1 p.m.) One… Source link

Streaming is the most popular way to watch TV shows, accounting for about 38% of all TV usage, according to Nielsen. Streaming watch parties makes it possible to enjoy a show with a friend who lives miles away, or your partner while they’re on a business trip. Some services, like Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video, used to allow people to host watch parties right from the service, but those methods are no longer available. We’ll walk you through two methods that allow you to host watch parties on those services and many more.  It’s important to note that both of these methods require you and your watch party to have access to the same streaming services. Simply put, everyone needs access to a Netflix account or these won’t work — and that goes for other streaming services. It is… Source link

Web hosting giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach, and warns that data on 1.2 million customers may have been accessed. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, GoDaddy’s chief information security officer Demetrius Comes said the company detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers. WordPress is a web-based content management system used by millions to set up blogs or websites. GoDaddy lets customers host their own WordPress installs on their servers. GoDaddy said the unauthorized person used a compromised password to get access to GoDaddy’s systems around September 6. GoDaddy said it discovered the breach last week on November 17. It’s not clear if the compromised password was protected with two-factor… Source link

As we hope you already know, we are committed to making sure that our servers run as smoothly as possible and that every website on our hosting platform is as secure as we can make it. That’s why we continually review and optimise our server settings. An upcoming change will affect the handling of files in the Trash folder within your home directory. This folder stores files that you have deleted using the File Manager feature in cPanel. Until now, deleted files have remained in the Trash indefinitely, or until you manually emptied the trash. This means that there are a lot of unwanted files taking up unnecessary storage space on our hosting servers. To optimise server resources, and for efficient storage management, we are going to begin automatically deleting files from the… Source link