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Japan strengthens cyberbullying penalties
As Americans, you may be surprised to hear that Japan has laws that cover cyberbullying. Up until recently, offenders could be jailed for up to 30 days or fined 10,000 yen, which is currently equivalent to about $75 US. Due in part to the suicide of a Japanese reality-TV star following months of social media
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Still no update to address Office Vulnerability
We are now well into week two of a significant vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft Office which allows attackers to use the preview function of Office apps to execute malicious code on Windows PCs. Though Microsoft finally admitted to it being a problem in their CVE posting last Tuesday after knowing about it since
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Bolster your vigilance with technology and expertise
A little over a month ago, I wrote about how being vigilant wasn’t going to be enough to stay safe on the internet. Don’t get me wrong, being vigilant about technology safety is a base-level requirement, like understanding elemental concepts like “fire hot” and “that scorpion is dangerous”. But knowing you need to be careful
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Ransomware attack shuts down college. Permanently.
Having your company’s operations halted due to a ransomware attack is pretty high up on the list of nightmare situations for any business owner. Depending on the severity of the attack and the state of your backups and business continuity plan, this could mean days of downtime while data is restored, and systems sanitized. In
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T-Mobile hackers grab source code, try to hack govt accounts
Last year we wrote about T-Mobile getting massively hacked, which essentially led to their entire customer database being leaked. This was a problem because among the information leaked were cell numbers and their associated, unique IMEI numbers which in theory could result in phones getting duped and/or services for accounts being switched to a different
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Why does everything have a password?
For those of us who’ve been using computers in the workplace for more than a decade or longer, we have frequent “Pepperidge Farm moments” about technology (and other stuff too, let’s be honest!) but for good reason. How many of you have been grinding through emails for the better part of a Monday morning, gathering
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