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Do You Have a Home Cybersecurity Plan?
Your home network is an entry point that is far too often overlooked.
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What’s the Breach Notification Rule for HIPAA?
A data breach within your business. You think it won’t happen, you hope it doesn’t happen, but what if it does happen? What are your next steps?
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How do people get hacked?
Breaches are becoming increasingly common as cybercriminals continue to advance their skills and tactics to trick their victims into falling for their scams. While cybercriminals are remaining diligent in their efforts to carry out their attacks, small business owners continue to underspend on cybersecurity. An article on Entrepreneur looks at 5 things your employees are doing that put your business at risk.
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Ransomware Victims – Could Your Actions Be Illegal?
The United States government has been known to take a stand of ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’ when it comes to discussions of ransom. Whether this has 100% certainty to it can be argued in more ways than we care to discuss here.
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Are Your Smart Appliances Spying On You?
And so, the season starts. Which one is it that we’re referring to? Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Prime Day…all of these sales tend to lean towards exceptional deals on electronics, and today that means the “smartest” of appliances are being purchased and set up in our homes.
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Cybercriminals in Disguise: Are you a victim of Business Email Compromise (BEC)?
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is not a new term. What is it? BEC is when a fraudulent email is sent to a company or individual, and the email appears to be from a legitimate business resource or person. Sometimes the email address varies from a legitimate email address by just a letter or two.
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Working from home? It’s never too late to evaluate!
We are past the point of whether or not working remotely, or from home, is something we are unsure of. It is likely our permanent setup, or at the very least, a long term one that we need to move forward with and in confidence.
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Hovering (over links) is your best secret weapon!
Hidden text, also known as zero font, allows a malicious email to bypass email security platforms by using invisible characters in between the letters of an email. They are often used to establish the legitimacy of emails. Read on to find out how to protect yourself from falling victim.
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Cybercriminals are Businesspeople too!
We don’t often think of cybercriminals as businesspeople. We tend to think they are individuals lurking about in hoodies in their basement. Quite the opposite – or so we have found through investigations and the exposure of organizations that steal our information.
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