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Sunday Funnies: Difficult

From Pinterest. When are we going to get truly wireless computers?

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OpenDNS Umbrella – Web Filtering and Security for SMBs

OpenDNS 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 CIT.

The way OpenDNS works is that all of your traffic to and from the Internet is run through the proxy server cloud at OpenDNS. In addition to protecting your ...

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Bitdefender Rated Best Business AV

AV-Test rated Bitdefender Endpoint Security 5.3 the best anti-virus software for Windows client business users in its December 2015 test. I mention this because this is the product that we deploy here at CIT for our managed service customers. They rated a nearly perfect score. Here are the particulars:

100% effective against zero-day malware out of 140 samples used
100% detection of 14,658 pervalent malware samples
Bitdefender affected performance negliably, adding ...

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If Only We Could Block Traffic From the Dark Web…

penetration_test 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.

First, my apology in advance to my non-technical followers, this article may be a bit high level for the average user.

A post in Spiceworks from “Born2Frag” ...

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Sunday Funnies – A Really Good Password

And to wrap up password week at WyzGuys. From Pinterest

good-password

This would work out like this:

X9_old_pond . . .a_frog_leaps_in_water’s_sound♠ψ♥

Aside from the gang sign, the hieroglyph, and the virgin’s blood, this would actually be an awesome and usable password.

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Adaptive Authentication To The Rescue

password1 Keith Graham of SecureAuth was recently interviewed for a recent article on TechRepublic, and the subject of adaptive authentication came up. He defined adaptive authentication this way:

“Adaptive authentication involves evaluating risk around the login process before the user even authenticates so that the system only steps up, or outright denies, the authentication when it deems a logon as a risk. Hence, ...

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Worst Passwords of 2015

bad-pwd Here are the 25 most commonly used passwords for 2014. If your password is on this list, please understand that these passwords are among the first tried when automated password cracking software is used by a cyber-criminal. So if yours is here, change it now.

Passwords are becoming problematic for several reasons. The first, IMHO, is the use of email addresses as the user ...

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Credit Card Numbers Explained

Thanks to mint.com for the following infographic. Credit card numbers are like social security numbers, different parts of the number tell a story. A credit card number, to be valid, has to conform to something called the Luhn algorithm. Basically, after doing some crazy math, the result needs to be divisible by 10.