If the only thing separating a cyber criminal, online stalker or identity thief from your personal data and information is a password or PIN you’ve already lost. There are three primary methods of authentication but “something you know” is the […]
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Stay calm and Windows on. Microsoft is not Big Brother and Windows 10 is not an evil tool for spying on you. Granted–it is capable of knowing and monitoring a great many things about you. Sharing information with Windows 10
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Disasters will strike. Many data loss incidents are a result of human error or completely preventable but the simple truth is that some catastrophes simply can’t be avoided. Whether or not your business survives a catastrophic data loss and emerges on
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We’ve been conditioned to believe that our malware defenses are adequate as long as we keep the software constantly updated to recognize and detect known threats. The approach is inherently reactive and functions essentially on the premise of “detect and
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Mary Ann Davidson’s post chastising Oracle customers for checking the company’s code for vulnerabilities created nothing less than a surge in security industry chatter this week. I’m not necessarily writing to analyze that chatter or further dissect Davidson’s comments, however
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There are two persistent truths about data. First, it’s a matter of “when” not “if” you will experience some sort of catastrophic data loss. Second, lack of preparation virtually guarantees that a catastrophic data loss will occur when you least
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A password is an inherently poor method of securing access to something. It’s just a thought–a series of random characters, or maybe not so random. If you lock something with a key you at least must have the key and
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Even before Steve Jobs cited the Adobe Flash plug-in for a dreadful security record and the main cause of Mac computers crashing in 2010, the web staple of the last two decades began to show signs that its light was
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The standard security tools like firewalls and antimalware suites do an adequate job of defending against most malware and exploits, but attackers figured out long ago that the easiest part of the security model to break or circumvent is the
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It’s been many years since I was actively working in the trenches as an IT administrator but I remember that one of the common issues I had to deal with was user apathy about security. Users assumed that security was
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