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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phishing Apple Users

Hackers are beginning to target Apple iPhone users by sending them text messages that appear to be from Apple. The text message have messages indicating that a lost device has been found and use URLs that have Apple product names ...

What is Bitlocker Encryption?

Bitlocker hard drive encryption is the encryption software that Microsoft builds into every version of Windows 10 Professional. It physically encrypts the data on your computer's hard drive so that even if your device is lost or stolen no one ...

Firewall Bug Could Hit East TN Hard

One of the world's biggest security vendors had hidden backdoors in their products that would allow virtually anyone to take over the firewall. Your firewall is the security appliance that is supposed to separate your internal, secure, network from the ...

Video Game Bugs & Your Business

One of the world's biggest video game companies has had two incredibly major bugs this month and it can kill your organization's security if you don't have the right policies in place. Most organizations we bring on initially have a ...

The Ticking Bomb Email

One of the newest ways to get past email defenses is getting the least amount of attention: the changing link. Here's how it works: The Bad Guy emails one of your employees an email "from" your CEO/President whatever with a ...

A Peak Into Ransomeware Retirement

Earlier this week ZDNet profiled an incredible exit strategy of one of the largest Ransomware operators of the last 12 months, GandCrab. Setting aside irony, the professionalism of the operation should catch the attention of any business owner. The operators ...

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