A shout out to my coworker at CIT, Jeff Towey, for sharing this with me.
James Veitch at TED
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WordFence Security released a post back on February 2 that detailed their findings on a sophisticated exploit against WordPress sites. We have discussed the importance of proper WordPress security on our blog several times in the past. See the links below to review those articles.
You can see the video that WordFence created here.
This exploit can be used to load ...
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You may be asking yourself this question. Cybersecurity seems like a hard thing, and maybe it is. But there are some easy ways to vastly improve your cybersecurity program that are easy and inexpensive. If you haven’t started a cybersecurity program yet, you might just start here.
According to the 2013 Trustwave Global Security Report, the top four mistakes revealed by forensic audits are:
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I will be one of the featured presenters at Patrick Boulay’s New Business Minnesota Startup Meetup on Wednesday March 23. The event runs from 3 pm to 5 pm, and there will be open networking following the speakers. You can register for this event on Meetup.
You can check out my article in the January edition of New Business Minnesota, titled Cyber Criminals Put Every Business at Risk here.
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We are to the point now where the men and women who were involved with the beginnings of the Internet are starting to pass away. Saturday, It was Ray Tomlinson, who invented email. We was the one who decided to use the @ sign in the email address to separate the user name portion from the domain name portion of the ...
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How would you feel if, in order to gain access to a known terrorist’s house, the government passed a law that required every lock manufacturer to create a master key that would unlock every locked door anywhere? What if the police promised that they would only use the key on the one house? What if they promised to keep the key safe and secure so it could never get into the ...
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A great product for quickly and easily adding web site filtering to your organization is OpenDNS Umbrella. OpenDNS was recently purchased by Cisco Systems. OpenDNS is another featured security product that is part of the Managed Services program here at 
AV-Test rated Bitdefender Endpoint Security 5.3 the 
Try to imagine how much bad stuff we could keep off our computers and networks if we could figure out a way to filter incoming traffic from the Dark Web. Well maybe we can.