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Special COVID19 Update: Knox County Moves to TN Pledge

On Monday the Knox County Health Department announced that they had learned from the county law office that the Knox County Board of Health was required to create policy. In other words: the phased re-opening plans put out so far ...

Masks & COVID-19

Let's take a few minutes today to talk about cloth masks. This article is not a red/blue black/white article. The central conclusion right up front: we don't know. We don't know if they help, we don't know if they hurt, ...

You're one of 22,802,117 people pwned in the db8151dd data breach

I get these emails with some regularity. I've kept my same email address for about ten years now and so there are a lot of chances for my records to be exposed. In this latest breach, over 22 million records ...

Knox County Plans to Opens Up

Get email alerts for our COVID-19 updates This post skips numbers completely, we will have an abbreviated post later for that. Instead, we focus 100% on Knox County's plan for re-opening. Spoiler: we like it. Download Knox County Re-Opening PlanDownload ...

Special Post: Re-opening Tennessee

Governor Lee just finished his daily media briefing during which he stated two important things: He will extend the stay-at-home order through April 30th He plans to re-open the economy in May, presumably May 1st. Let's dig into #2 a ...

Guidance for Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus

How should employers plan to respond to a Coronavirus outbreak? There are several protocols the CDC has recommended we follow in order to prepare our work environments for such an event. A few include sanitizing workstations regularly, actively encourage sick ...

Don't Lose Sleep; Have a Plan

"How much sleep should I lose over this?" I'd just finished going over some areas of high risk for this customer, some projects that had been delayed, appropriately up until now, due to larger business issues." "None, I only lose ...

Yahoo! Breach Settlement Recap

Yahoo! was hacked multiple times in the 2010's. In the worse case, literally every single account was compromised. If you had opened a Yahoo! account before 2016 your info -- including your password -- is available on the Dark Web. ...

Another IT Provider Hacked

We just finished writing about an IT provider of managed services in Colorado who was hacked, and in turn all or most of their customers were hacked as well. Well, it's another day and this time the story comes from ...

IT Provider & Its Customers Hacked

Krebs on Security writes about a hacking incident in Colorado late in 2019: A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity ...