How Secure Is Your Accountant’s Network?

This is the year that false tax return filing really made the news in a big way.  First, there was the exfiltration of return data from the IRS Get Transcript website, where many American taxpayers lost personally identifying information.  Now there is news of an attack by a Bulgarian cyber-criminal against the networks of four unidentified accounting firms, and the theft of the tax and personal information of around 1000 clients.  This crook has been extradited ...

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JUL
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cybersecurity

Backup For Your WordPress Site

WordPresslogoOne of the most important and easily implemented security protections is data backup.  That’s right, backup is a part of a well crafted security program.  Because whatever the disaster, whether cyber-attack, theft, data corruption, hardware failure, fire, flood, or bad weather, having a good backup program means that you can recover from disaster and continue operations.

And one of the most important things to ...

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17
JUL
1

backup, cybersecurity, WordPress

Should I Be Encrypted?

penetration_testWith all the personal data that has been stolen over last couple of years making headlines, prime time news stories, and an endless barrage of hacker-themed TV programs (Scorpion, Person of Interest, Mr Robot, etc.), cybersecurity has become a mainstream topic of interest.  Everyone wants to know how to protect themselves and their data from attack.  Encryption is beginning to ...

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13
JUL
0

cybersecurity

Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier – A Review

I finished Bruce Schneier’s latest contribution to the realm of corporate and governmental surveillance. This book is a great read if you want to understand just who IS spying on you. Turns out it is not just the NSA, but big corporations are collecting all data they can on customers and potential customers, and this information is sold and exchanged. Then there is the unholy alliance between corporate American and Big Government surveillance.

At the end, he recommended solutions in the ...

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8
JUL
0

Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, surveillance

Google My Account Helps Control Your Privacy

As ironic as it may seem, since Google knows more about us than even the NSA, Google has stepped up with a new tool called My Account to help people control their online privacy.  If you have been lamenting the loss of personal privacy in the Internet age, here at last is something you can do about it.  It may not address all your concerns, but here is a start.

You will be able to control Sign-in and Security, Personal ...

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6
JUL
0

Computers and Internet, cybersecurity

Have a WordPress Site? Better Secure It!

WordPresslogoWordPress has become an incredibly popular web design platform, and currently has about a 25% share of all web sites on the Internet.  As an open-source software product that is free to download and use, with a great support and documentation through WordPress.org, and a huge, international development community providing an endless array of themes, plug-ins and widgets, it is ...

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26
JUN
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, passwords, Web Design, WordPress

Linux Needs Security Too

linux-logoIf you are running a Linux server or Linux desktop in your environment, you need to consider the following security strategies.  Linux users suffer in some cases from the popular delusions of invulnerability that Apple users are prone to, and for some of the same reasons.  Such as, most malware only runs on Windows so why should I care?  Or, Linus is such a small target with less than 2% ...

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JUN
0

cybersecurity, Linux, Software vulnerability

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