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IT Security Still a Struggle for Small Businesses

An article review. Small businesses continue to face obstacles in implementing information security. A new survey was recently released showing some interesting trends involving IT security and small businesses. From the numbers, it appears that it is not only the shortage...

Hackers Steal $1.3 Million In Bitcoins From Digital Bank

Are your old accounts up to date with the most recent security tools? An Australian Bitcoin “bank” owner reported 4,100 Bitcoins, worth a total of $1.3 million USD, stolen from his digital wallet. The owner claims the thieves broke into his site, inputs.io, on October 23rd ...

Increasing the Frequency of Risk Assessments

Time to ramp up your risk assessment! When it comes to IT risk assessment, frequency is just as important as the actual assessment. While HIPAA and other compliance mandates only require annual assessments, some experts say this is not enough for most organizations. Directo...

Infotex Endorses TRAC

November 7th, 2013: For the first time in the firm’s fourteen year history, infotex has selected a technology partner. “Until now, we have taken great pride in our technology neutrality,” says Dan Hadaway, Managing Partner, “which we felt was essential in ...

Why We Endorse TRAC!

“The days of Dan Hadaway’s spreadsheets are numbered.” We were open to this reality very early on, because we had been asking ourselves many related questions for several years. Many of our Clients suggested we turn our spreadsheets into a database, but we knew we were...

PHP Website Compromised By Hackers

Malware may have infected visitors to PHP website. If you visited the official website for the PHP programming language on Tuesday October 22nd you would have encountered a warning that the site contained Malware. The site was blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing on Tuesday ...

Audit Checklist Does Not Equal Security

For organizations to develop a mature risk management program, they must go beyond the checklist. We have always believed that checklists are dangerous in audits, that audits should be based on risk as much as compliance. We believe that risk assessments should determine ...

A Simplified Approach to Vendor Management

If we had to reduce all of vendor management down to two operations, we’d suggest a strong contract policy, and a sorting process. Business Associate Agreements Simplified For those of you who are wanting to come into lightening-speed compliance with Section 164.308(b...

First Obamacare Breach Caused by User Error

Security blunder serves as cautionary tale: Awareness training is important! We are not surprised that the first breach in the Obamacare system was caused not by the technology, but ultimately by a lack of awareness training. A document filled with the personal information ...

URGENT!!! Adobe Hacked, Acrobat Source Code Stolen

Passwords and other sensitive information from 3 million customers compromised. Adobe announced that its corporate network has been compromised by hackers who managed to access source code for several software applications as well as password data and sensitive data belongi...

Articles

IT Security Still a Struggle for Small Businesses

Hackers Steal $1.3 Million In Bitcoins From Digital Bank

Increasing the Frequency of Risk Assessments

Infotex Endorses TRAC

Why We Endorse TRAC!

PHP Website Compromised By Hackers

Audit Checklist Does Not Equal Security

A Simplified Approach to Vendor Management

First Obamacare Breach Caused by User Error

URGENT!!! Adobe Hacked, Acrobat Source Code Stolen

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