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Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks

Jan 18, 2020 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, Business Email Compromise, Cyber breaches, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, Economic Disruption, Education, Employee Training, Employees, Employment, Exploits, Fines and Penalties, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Insider Threat, Internet, Malware, MFA, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Phishing, Phishing, Phishing, Policies and Procedures, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Security, Smishing, Social Engineering, Social Media, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Threats, Tracking

Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks We depend on our smart devices and use them as a primary communication tool. Studies found that young adult users send over 2000 texts per month and receive over 1800 with that volume people are less wary, and it is...

Pesky Apps That You Need To Delete ASAP

Jan 4, 2020 | Advertising, Applications, Attack Vectors, brain development, Brain Fitness, Business, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data, Exploits, Facebook, Google, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, Health, Infosec, iOS, Malware, Mental Fatigue, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Nationstates, Patching, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts, spying, Tracking, Updates, Vulnerabilities

Pesky Apps That You Need To Delete ASAP Not all Apps are Good Apps… Depressive Apps. With everyone curating an unrealistic, heavily manufactured, idealized version of their lives, we all start to believe other people’s lives are so much better than...

Are You At Risk from Your Outsourced Software Provider

Dec 19, 2019 | Backup, Business, credential stealing, Cyber Liability, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, Data Storage, Fines and Penalties, Government, Hacking, Hacking, hacking as a service, Hacks, Incident Response, Insider Threat, Internet, Malware, Networking, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulation, Security, Security Alerts, Software As A Service, Technology, Third - Party, Updates

Are You At Risk from Your Outsourced Software Provider The “Cloud” is the eponymous name given for a computer server that belongs to another person or company that you have no control over. There are many companies who offer computing services to...

Cyberbreaches cause Small Businesses to Close

Nov 9, 2019 | Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Audit Logs, Best Practices, Business, credentials, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, CyberTraining, data sharing, Data Storage, Databases, Employees, Employees, Firewalls, Firewalls, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Hard Disks, Intellectual Property Theft, Laptops, Liability, Malware, Malware, Networking, Networking, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Ransomware, Routers, Security, Security, Security Alerts, segmentation, Software As A Service, Switches, Technology, Updates

Cyberbreaches cause Small Businesses to Close Cybercriminals have found a lucrative new target – the small business. Unfortunately, for a tenth of them the breach meant closing their doors forever. The impacts on small businesses is excentuated greatly....

Powerful Apps allow Control for…. Ever!

Nov 9, 2019 | Android, Android, Applications, Applications, applications, Biography, Business, Cars, Coding, Consumer, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Internet, iOS, iPhone, Mapping, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Navigation, Patches, Patching, Phone, Phones, Radio Show, Radio_Show, safety, Security, Security Alerts, Smart Phone, Software Manufacturers, Technology, Third-Party, Tracking, Travel, Updates, vehicles

Powerful Apps allow Control for…. Ever! Many companies are creating apps and they are powerful. They are convenient and offer ease of use to their product lines. However, they may not have concidered the implications when not used in the manner that they...

Oops —- We Designed Technology to be Unpatchable

Nov 9, 2019 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, gadgets, Hacks, Infosec, Internet, IoT, Liability, Networking, Patches, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Security Alerts, segmentation, Software, Technology, Third-Party, Updates, Updates

Oops —- We Designed Technology to be Unpatchable IoT or Internet of Things devices are becoming more and more popular. It seems that all types of items we never considered to require connectivity are now connected to the internet. They are constantly passing...