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Your business isn’t too small to be targeted
Noted security company Acronis recently released its mid-year 2022 report on cyber security, and to say that their findings are sobering would be an understatement. Let me hit you with some stats. First off: damage caused by cyberattacks is expected to reach $30 billion by 2023, and to give you some perspective, this is nearly
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The Elements of a Secure Email Account
Though the numbers are dwindling rapidly, there are still plenty of working professionals who have spent more time working without email than with. And now there is a growing labor pool for whom email is seen as yesterday’s technology (they are not wrong!) and probably do not place as much relevance into it as the
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Technology Myths and Misconceptions
As with all things complex and made by humans, technology is rife with myths and misconceptions. Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and while many of you think the only thing missing from my outfit is a wizard hat, I can assure you this is
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Don’t expect Facebook to honor your privacy
As someone who is beyond jaded by social media and the mega-corporations behind them, this news isn’t surprising, and I actually expected to see it long before now, but it gives me no pleasure in seeing our worst fears play out. Motherboard has published a story today about a Nebraska teenager and her mother being
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Working from Home is great. Or is it?
Social media is literally ablaze with heated discussions about a wide variety of workers’ rights issues: pay inequity, workplace toxicity, exploitation, unionization efforts, and working from home. On the last one, with Covid’s impact slowly waning, employers are starting to ask people to come back to the offices, and many folks have grown more than
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Should you flag a number as “spam”?
It happens to all of us. You are elbow deep in your day’s work (or fun, if you are fortunate!) and your phone buzzes. “Unknown Number” is calling you, and it looks familiar because it’s the same area code and possibly even same prefix as your number. Is that your friend’s new number? Nope, it’s
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