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Email Security Best Practices
Constant email vigilance is critical to maintaining a secure workplace. Keep these tips in mind every time you check your inbox: DO NOT Open any email attachments that end with: .exe, .scr, .bat, .com, or other executable files you do not recognize. “Unsubscribe” – it is easier to delete the e-mail than to deal with…
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Protecting Student Data
Data-driven decision making has been a growing theme in education as much as business. As concerns about student progress and proficiency increase, and measurements of all sorts work towards making student growth more transparent, the amount of data on each child that calls our schools part of her community proliferates. But in a culture where…
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Small Business Cyber Security Tips
With ransomware on the rise, and small businesses being easy targets for hackers, if you don’t have the right security measures in place, it is not a question of if you will suffer a cyber incident, but when. In fact, 44% of small businesses reported being the victim of a cyber attack and the average…
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The Four Corners Approach to Phishing
Phishing is one of the most successful tactics that bad actors use to infiltrate small to mid-sized businesses’ networks. It has been a tried and true tactic for such a long time because it takes advantage of human behavior and emotions, like muscle memory and fear, greed, or trust. By now, nearly all employees get…
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Cyber Security in the Legal Field
In this day and age, all industries and companies are subject to cyber security threats. Hackers work hard to breach our securities and obtain sensitive data every single day. Believe it or not, law firms are at a higher risk for cyber security threats than the average business. Four separate times in the last 6…
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Security Update: Android Users Beware
Hummer is rapidly becoming the biggest malware threat across the world targeting Android users. This virus has infected 1.2 million devices so far. With numbers like this, Hummer is likely the biggest Trojan family ever. Security researchers, like Cheeta Mobile Security Research Lab, have recently issued warning because this Trojan family has already made a…
