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How confident are you that your data is safe online?

It’s amazing what kind of information about you is floating around in cyberspace:  Your bank account numbers, financial transactions, medical records, and other details of your personal life that you trust is being kept private.  Perhaps for the most part, only...

Lax digital security at IRS reads like a “what not to do” list

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is responsible for collecting trillions of dollars in federal taxes and processing about 140 million tax returns.  Because the agency’s computers house a vast amount of personally identifiable information, the potential...

What you need to know about doing business in the cloud

Small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly turning to offsite computer services for their IT needs.  Utilization of the so-called “cloud” for both file storage and backup, as well as for web-based software (also know as software as a service or SaaS), is...

Senior care facilities have high cyber liability

As the nation’s baby boomers age, retirement communities and nursing homes are expanding.  These senior living facilities often emphasize physical security as one of the main benefits they can provide to potential residents and their concerned families. Frequently,...
Lessons learned from LinkedIn breach

Lessons learned from LinkedIn breach

As you may have heard by now, LinkedIn notified its users last week that it had been hacked.  Out of about 150 million users, approximate 6 million had their passwords stolen and posted on a hacker web site.  The breach of the social networking giant should come as no...