Facebook has joined the crowd of major web services that allow you to set up two-factor authentication (2FA or TFA). I just finished setting it up on my account, and I was please to see that it works with Google Authenticator. According to the instructions, it will also work with the Facebook smartphone app for Android or iPhone. Tech Republic has a great step by step tutorial, so I won’t ...
As we approach the new year it is traditional to make our New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, most resolutions are made but not kept, so I am a little reluctant to offer these ideas for improving your cybersecurity in the coming year. But if you have not climbed on the cybersecurity bandwagon yet, you are definitely overdue. Pick a few of these ideas to implement in your business.
Here they are:
Yes you are reading the headline correctly, and no I am not out of my mind. The current crop of Microsoft products including the Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 operating systems are some of the best products in their class from a cybersecurity standpoint. This is according to a recent article in the New York Times, as well as from Microsoft’s ...
‘Tis the season for candy corn. The candy corn season I think officially starts with Halloween, continues through Thanksgiving, and ends right after Christmas. Some facts from Wikipedia would seem to dispute this, showing that candy corn is a year round phenomenon:
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Candy corn was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Philadelphia, PA-based Wunderle Candy Company. ...
Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
If you want a bit more, check out this post on TechDirt about unusual Christmas traditions.
One of the security practices that I am always looking for is two-factor or multi-factor authentication. This is when you need a user name, a password, and a special code or device to provide the second authentication factor.
I have been using Google Authenticator with my extensive set Google accounts and with the password manager LastPass. I was happy to learn that I can ...
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Adobe’s Flash program has been a security nightmare. A favorite among malware writers for ages, Flash is useful for doing things like creating fake security pop-up alerts and conning computer users into buying security programs that don’t work and carry malicious content. And it seems that there is another “zero-day” vulnerability discovered every three days.
Do we really need Flash? No we don’t. iPhones and ...
Continue Reading →Here are two of my favorites. Click on the pictures below to see all 28 ideas – these are priceless.
If you or your company is still using Internet Explorer 10 or older versions of IE, then it is important that you move to IE11 (at a minimum) before January 12 2016. Microsoft will officially end support for browser products older than Internet Explorer 11. Many businesses are using older versions of IE to provide compatibility with older line-of-business and internal web applications. If you are not updating those ...
I am a big adherent of Gibb’s Rule 13, “Never, ever involve lawyers.” Unfortunately, if your business suffers a data breach, Rule 13 goes out the window. You will be sued. Count on it.
But here are some things that you should do to protect yourself and your business from the worst legal repercussions: