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Can QR Codes Wreck Your Cell Phone?
You’ve seen them everywhere, from restaurant menus to parking meters, flyers, and even on signs in your favorite cafés. Scanning a QR code is supposed to be easy and convenient. Since their widespread adoption during the 2020 pandemic, when everyone prioritized distance and hygiene, QR codes have been splashed across every city. You probably see several on your daily route Alone
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Beating Alert Fatigue Without Losing Vigilance
Your phone pings with another “security notice.” A pop-up flashes about a “new login from an unknown device.” Your inbox fills with system notifications you barely understand.
We’ve all been there. After a while, it’s easy to start tuning out these incessant disturbances. That mental exhaustion has a name: Alert fatigue.
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Nov 173 min read
How Oversharing and Overscrolling Lead to Breaches
Every cybersecurity breach tells a story. More often than not, that story starts with someone clicking, sharing, or scrolling just a little too far.
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Nov 53 min read
How Everyday Conversations Shape Cyber Safety
You might think cybersecurity is all about firewalls, patches, and anti-virus, but often, it begins (and sometimes ends) with a conversation. Small check-ins like, “Did you expect that email?” or a verbal confirmation from a coworker add up to
Security doesn’t just come from technology, in other words. It comes from people talking with each other; sharing when they notice odd things, asking questions, and refusing to assume everything is as it seems.
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Nov 53 min read
How to Use a Password Manager and Virtual Cards for Zero-Risk Holiday Shopping
Have you ever been concerned about your credit card or personal data getting stolen while shopping online? You’re not alone. Each holiday season, as millions of shoppers flock online for convenience, hackers ramp up their activity. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned that scammers often create fake shopping websites or send phishing emails to steal consumers’ money and personal information, especially during the holiday season.
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Nov 34 min read
When Convenience Becomes the Enemy of Security
Convenience has quietly become the new currency. We want to log in faster, share files more easily, and approve payments instantly. Unfortunately, cybersecurity often takes a back seat to the craving for speed.
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Oct 292 min read
Is AI Fixing Security, or Just Automating Our Flaws?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of both personal lives and workplaces. Headlines now promise that AI will catch hackers before they strike, detect threats faster than humans, and make our digital lives safer.
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Oct 223 min read
When Zero Trust Meets Human Nature
Many workplaces have implemented Zero Trust policies. Does yours have one? Do you know what that term really means?
At its core, the idea sounds simple: never trust, always verify. That essentially means that, instead of assuming everyone and everything on your company network is safe, every request for access must be thoroughly checked, verified, and logged. When used well, it makes it much harder for attackers to move around unnoticed.
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Oct 163 min read
Spoofing: When Trust Gets Faked
You hear warnings about phishing, ransomware, malware, but there’s another threat that often flies under the radar: Spoofing. It’s where someone pretends to be someone (or something) they’re not. They do this by faking numbers, websites, or identities. The goal is to trick you, the user, into letting them in under the guise of a trusted person or URL. What makes this threat so particularly dangerous? How can you avoid becoming a target?
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Oct 164 min read
When Tax Season Texts Turn Into Smishing Attacks
Tax season is stressful enough on its own. Now, some California residents face an extra headache: A wave of smartphone scams (also known as smishing campaigns) designed to trick hardworking taxpayers into handing over sensitive information.
Whether or not you’re in the red zone for this particular wave of attacks, smishing scams can affect anyone—especially during tense and confusing times like tax season.
What can you do to protect yourself from threats like this?
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Oct 102 min read
When “Opt Out” Doesn’t Mean Out: What Google’s $425M Lesson Means for You.
On the surface, this appears to be just another major tech company in legal trouble for violating the law. For the affected customers and everyone who chooses to “opt out” of similar circumstances, new questions and concerns arise.
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Oct 102 min read
Your Business’s Digital Compass: Creating an IT Roadmap for Small Business Growth
Small businesses often struggle to effectively leverage technology. It can be a challenge to survive, much less thrive. In many cases, they instinctively fall back on a reactive approach to IT challenges, rather than planning and acting proactively. That’s where an IT roadmap can help. It serves as a digital compass for organizations, a strategic document that provides alignment between technology needs, initiatives, and business objectives
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Oct 73 min read
Why Cybersecurity Matters to You
When most people hear the word cybersecurity, they might think that only IT staff have to worry about breaches, or only their boss has concerns about the productivity downturn.
The reality, though, is that cybersecurity isn’t just a tech issue. It’s a people issue, a legal issue, and even a cultural issue — and every employee plays a part in keeping sensitive company data safe.
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Sep 162 min read
Why Hackers Think You’re an Easy Target
When people imagine hackers, they often think of hoodie-wearing geniuses typing code at lightning speed. In reality, most attackers don’t need elite skills to break in. They need you to make one mistake.
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Sep 92 min read
Stop Account Hacks: The Advanced Guide to Protecting Your Small Business Logins
Sometimes the first step in a cyberattack isn’t code. It’s a click. A single login involving one username and password can give an intruder a front-row seat to everything your business does online.
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Aug 295 min read
AI Leaks: What Happens When Machines Leak Your Secrets?
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword. It’s baked into everything from your office productivity programs to the customer service chatbots that you interact with daily. For small and midsize businesses (and their employees), AI can be a powerful tool. It automates tasks, improves efficiency, and even helps with cybersecurity.
No downsides, right?
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Aug 293 min read
Your Crypto Wallet Login Is Worth More Than Your Laptop on the Dark Web
Imagine losing hundreds (or even thousands!) of dollars without your bank account ever being touched. That’s precisely what’s at risk when a bad actor steals your cryptocurrency wallet login.
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Aug 213 min read
Hackers Breach Federal Court Filing System: What It Means for You
Imagine being a confidential informant in a federal criminal case — and suddenly realizing your name might now be in the hands of the very people you helped put away. That’s the nightmare scenario federal officials are dealing with after a sweeping cyberattack on the U.S. federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system.
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Aug 213 min read
Malware-as-a-Service Is Using Microsoft Teams to Launch Attacks
Introduction Microsoft Teams has become a staple in modern workplaces, helping employees communicate and collaborate more efficiently. Do...
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Aug 183 min read
How Lack of Preparation Can Affect Cybersecurity
ntroduction Are you ready for a potential cybersecurity incident? From data breaches to insider threats, these digital risks lurk in wait...
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Aug 82 min read
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