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How to Prevent Visual Hacking

May 10, 2022

Although technology has advanced quite a bit over the last decade, you don’t have to be an expert to hack someone’s private information. All you really need is a quick look, and boom you are in. Visual hacking is a …

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Protecting Against USB Cyber Threats

January 18, 2022

With more companies allowing work from home because of the continuing pandemic, employees have grown increasingly reliant on transportable USB drives. According to the 2021 Honeywell Industrial USB Threat Report, cyber threats specifically designed to attack removable media nearly doubled …

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Password Security Best Practices 2021

October 19, 2021

In today’s digital age, keeping your workplace passwords secure from hackers is important. Passwords are basically the “front door” for hackers to illegally enter your workplace’s digital space. However, many individuals use predictable, easy-to-guess passwords which expose companies to the …

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Tips in Protecting Against Cyberattacks

Tips in Protecting Against Cyberattacks

March 23, 2021

Looking at your company’s safety, cyber safety must always be taken into consideration. Regardless of whether you perform only menial tasks online or store all of your confidential information on a web server, here are some tips for keeping your …

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Cybersecurity: Home and Office Edition

October 14, 2020

During these times, some of us are still working from home while others have shifted back to working in the office. Regardless of where you’re working from, to celebrate National Cyber Security Month, we want to shed some light on …

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How secure is your phone?

May 16, 2018

When it comes to personal computers, people seem to understand the security risks involved fairly well. Most people have some sort of anti-virus or -malware software on their computers and understand connecting your computer to a free Wi-Fi network can …

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How do you know if you’ve been hacked?

December 13, 2017

When you get hacked, it’s not like alarms go off with flashing lights and a PA announcement that we’ve gone to DEFCON 2. (Although, now that we think of it, that would be pretty great, because at least then you’d …

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Viruses

November 22, 2017

In the videogame called Plague Inc., a player tries to destroy all of humanity by creating a super pathogen. The secret to winning (spoiler alert) is to make your plague hyper infectious but with no obvious symptoms. The minute people …

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Security, Part 12: How Avril Lavigne can ruin your business

October 25, 2017

McAfee recently conducted their 11th annual Most Dangerous Celebrities study with Avril Lavigne topping the list, followed by that scoundrel, Bruno Mars. OK, so neither of these celebrities are actually dangerous, but searching for gossip about them can be dangerous …

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An ounce of pre-mortem is worth a pound of post

August 16, 2017

In a crisis, your brain doesn’t work properly. Your hippocampus, which is responsible for processing memories, hits the stress button and releases cortisol into your system. It then shuts down until there is enough of the chemical circulating in your …

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