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Companies Sharing Your Data with Their Third Party Vendors

Sep 7, 2019 | Applications, Best Practices, Big Tech, Business, Consumer, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data, data sharing, Employee Training, Facebook, Facebook, Google, Hacking, LinkedIn, LinkedIn, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Resources, Security, Social Media, Social Networking, Software, Software As A Service, storage, Technology, Web Tools

Companies Sharing Your Data with Their Third-Party Vendors It seems that every day there’s another news headline about how companies are using consumer data. Facebook was in the news again recently when the FTC slapped it with a $5 billion fine based on...

Technology Makes Crime Easier

Aug 17, 2019 | Cybercrime, CyberTraining, Employees, Encryption, Financial, Hackers, Hacking, Internet, Malware, Passwords, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Security, Security, Social Networking, Technology

Technology Makes Crime Easier In part one of TechRepublic’s four-part series “Mastermind con-man behind Catch Me If You Can talks cybersecurity” TechRepublic’s Karen Roby sat down with Frank Abagnale, the famous con man turned FBI...

FTC Backward Decision Gives Facebook Everything It Has Always Wanted

Aug 10, 2019 | Big Tech, Facebook, Facebook, Fines and Penalties, FTC, Government, Internet, Legal, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Social Networking, Technology, Tracking

FTC Backward Decision Gives Facebook Everything It Has Always Wanted So, as was leaked a couple of weeks ago, the FTC has now made its $5 billion settlement with a Facebook official. There’s quite a bit that’s interesting in the stipulated order...

LinkedIn No Longer an Asset but Now a Liability

Jul 27, 2019 | Business, CEO, Cybercrime, CyberTraining, Employees, Hackers, Hacking, LinkedIn, LinkedIn, Organized Crime, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Smart Phone, Social Networking, Technology

Business leaders use Social Media, too. And LinkedIn is now being used to attack us on an unprecedented scale. But this is different. Social Media is no longer about tweens, teens, and college students. It’s at the point now where most adults find it hard to...

The Fertile Garden of Social Media is ripe for attracting Cybercriminals to your Business

Jul 20, 2019 | Blogging, Business, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, CyberTraining, data sharing, Email, Employees, Facebook, Facebook, Generation-Y, Google, Hackers, Hacking, Internet, LinkedIn, LinkedIn, Malware, Monitoring, Pinterest, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Tracking, Twitter, Twitter, YouTube

Are you or your employees giving away the keys to your kingdom? The magnetism of Social Media If you have teens and you will understand the magnetism that social media seems to have over them. However, it is not only teens, but almost our entire society is...

Increases in Teen Depression — Check their Social Media Usage

Jul 20, 2019 | Children, Mental Health, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Science, Smart Phone, Social Media, Social Networking, Suicides, Technology, Teens

Increases in Teen Depression — Check their Social Media Usage Teen suicide rates are at their highest level since 2000. And a new study released Monday says too much time on social media could be contributing to that. A study published in the journal JAMA...