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If you accept credit cards for payment in your business, then you are subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard or PCI-DSS.  Up to now, this standard has really been more about compliance, but this year the Payment Card Industry is definitely focusing on real 24/7 365 security.  The industry has been hit hard in the last two years by the BackOff POS exploits that have affected major retailers such as Target, Home Depot, and Staples, as well ...

We have come to a point in the history of networking and cybersecurity where we are seeing the effectiveness of passwords falling to the improved cracking tools of cyber-criminals.  At this point the encrypted hash of an 8 character password can be solved in less ...

Tim Berners Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web (WWW) Protocol 25 years ago, says that the access to the Internet has become a basic human need, and needs to be a fundamental human right.  A recent report by the World ...

My plea (falling on deaf ears I suspect)

1. If you are going to drive below the speed limit stay out of the left lane.
2. Slow drivers please stay out of the center lane.  I get it, you are avoiding the merging traffic in the right line ...

We will be presenting a seminar on small business and personal cybersecurity this month.  it is sponsored by the Stillwater Area Chamber of Commerce.

If you think your business is too small to be a target for cyber-criminals, the evidence would suggest otherwise! In fact, small ...

This has happened to me a couple of times, and I always get panicked calls from clients when it happens to them.  All of a sudden your email inbox is flooded with undeliverable return email messages, sent to people you have never heard of.  Hundreds of them, spanning sometimes as much as a week’s time.  See below.

Has your email account been hacked?  Do you have to change your password?  In a word, NO.  You are merely the victim of “spoofing,” ...

Here is a short video that gives the Hollywood version of computer hacking.  Not terribly accurate, so don’t try this at home, it won’t work. The steps are:

• Access the system
• Break the encryption
• Download the files
• Upload a virus
• Log off ...