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Is that website you are on safe?

Would it surprise you to learn that there are over 4 billion internet users in 2018? With over half of the population around the world now surfing the net, there may be an increased opportunity for malware attacks by those with malicious intent. As internet scams...

Complacency will cost you

Spear-phishing is on the rise Imagine spending years developing a product your research says will take the market by storm. Grow your small business into a major player. Rewrite the rules for much larger competitors. Then comes the email from a potential investor...

New Password Guidelines

New NIST Password Guidelines Recently the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released updated best practices for creating passwords. Surprisingly, NIST’s recommendations fly in the face of what we’ve been taught for a long time about...

Spam, spam, go away

Spam. In some ways, it’s the electronic equivalent of junk mail and junk phone calls. Spam is not only an unsolicited and annoying nuisance, it’s also a pervasive problem that’s clogging and overwhelming the Internet’s email systems. Spam...

Can you strengthen your weakest link?

The answer may surprise you There’s an adage in IT circles that people — both you and your employees — tend to be the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. But that’s not entirely true. Attacks actually come from a variety of places, with 72 percent...