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DIY Tech – Short-term Savings, Long-term Risks
They didn’t invent it, but the internet and specifically platforms like YouTube, provided a huge boost to the “Do-It-Yourself” movement. Instead of having to rely on hands-on training, word of mouth, books or walking back and forth between project and the VCR player, we can now bring up at least a dozen or more videos
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LAUSD Hackers make good on threat, release data
The Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) was hacked in early September, prompting a near total shutdown of school network systems during the week following Labor Day while law enforcement and the district worked to recover and clear systems of possible backdoors and tripwires, of which many were found. The nation’s second largest school district
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YouTube and the Illusion of Control
You probably already knew this: YouTube is the second most visited website on the internet. In obvious first place is Google.com which also happens to be the parent/sister company of the world’s biggest video streaming site. YouTube has over 800 million videos (and growing) and gets over 17 billion visits per month (source), so saying
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Rolling Blackouts could be a problem for remote workers
It would make for a better story if I was writing this from my laptop while huddled up at a coffee shop in the next town over because my office was without power, but so far we are fortunate enough to still have lights, AC and most importantly, internet access. But we, and everyone else,
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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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