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Recently researchers at AVG investigated how easily Siri could be fooled by voices other than the device’s owner.  In addition to using  human voices, they also used synthesized voice commands, and found that Siri, and the virtual assistants available for Android phones do not discriminate between commands from their owner, and commands issued by others.  They said:

However, these voice recognition technologies – that are so necessary on smart devices – are perhaps not as secure as we give ...

The Christmas shopping season opens today.  Black Friday, Plaid Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday.  28 shopping days until Christmas.

In this day of excessive commercialism, and the never ending retail encroachment on our Thanksgiving holiday traditions, whatever those are for you, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving day filled with family, feasting, and football.  If you are one of those who will be shopping today, be sure to wish a happy Thanksgiving on those less fortunate, and I mean the ...

We have talked at length about how your employees may be inadvertently opening the door to cyber attacks by clicking on links and opening attachments in email.  But could your employees be actively and purposefully looking to sabotage your network and steal intellectual property, or financial assets over your own computer network.  The FBI recently released information about insider threats and the effects on businesses.  The report said:

A review of recent FBI cyber investigations revealed victim businesses incur ...

In the first and second posts of this three post series, we looked at the essentials “must-haves” of small business cybersecurity, and then at a more advanced list of “better-haves.”  In this final post we will look at some advanced concepts and planning that typically are part of the cybersecurity process at larger enterprises. For a small business owner, this may seem like a lot to go through, but again, working with a cybersecurity professional or firm that specializes in ...

In our last post we looked at the eleven must have items that a company ought to have in place to meet the bare minimum of cybersecurity essentials.  In today’s post we are looking at another ten highly recommended cybersecurity practices.

• Beware of emails bearing links or attachments, or that are requesting personal information, user credentials, or credit card or banking information.  It is a good practice to call the sender to confirm the contents on any attachment or the destination ...

Small businesses and organizations are generally lagging behind their enterprise sized counterparts when it comes to cybersecurity.  Over the next three posts we will look at the actions small business owners and managers should undertake to security their digital assets.

A large part of the reason that small businesses are lagging in cyber security is due to the fact that small owner-managed businesses are generally focusing time, energy, and capital resources at the core purpose of their business:  selling more of ...