Tag Archive for: online security

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Have I Been Pwned?

Dropbox recently reset user passwords on over 68 million user accounts that were compromised during a 2012 security breech.  The company had previously disclosed the breech, but was not aware of its severity until 68.8 million Dropbox user…
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Change your passwords

When was the last time you changed your passwords?  Despite increasingly alarming odds of being hacked, most people do not take even the most basic precautions to insure that their information remains private – creating and maintaining strong…
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Internet Threats Increasing Daily

According to an article by CNN, 868,500 new pieces of malware – computer viruses and other malicious software – were released everyday last year.  This is up drastically from the paltry 86,000 new daily releases in 2013.  In total, an…
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Online Privacy – It’s No Joke

My favorite New Yorker cartoon featured two dogs, one dog sitting at a computer talking to the another dog sitting on the ground.  The caption “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”  While this used to be true, it’s not true…