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Data For Sale: How Anyone Can Locate Your Phone

Third party ‘location brokers’ are reselling data from carriers, and there may not be much you can do about it. An Article Review. For many years it has been common knowledge that your cell phone’s physical location can be identified–signal triangu...
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R-7 – The Top Seven Risks – 2019

Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . When Dan presents audit reports to boards of directors, he also talks to the board about the top risks the institution is facing. Since 2006, Dan has been compiling a list ...
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Legacy Devices Pose A Security Risk

Devices like fax machines and copiers are often classified as office supplies and slip past IT scrutiny… An article review. Despite all the advances in technology, most offices still generate large volumes of printed documents, and the devices used to produce and pr...
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The Rise of “Shadow Data”

Even if you haven’t ever used Facebook, your friends and family may have already let them build a profile on you… An article review. For this week’s review we had initially planned on using this interesting piece from Brian Krebs, about the dangers of re...
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The Pine Processionary

Battling Procedure Fatigue in Cybersecurity . . . Or . . . making sure we don’t just go through the motions! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . When it comes to the routine things in life, it can be...
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Themes Announced

Weekly themes for the annual event have been announced… An article review. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the weekly themes for this year’s event have been released: Oct. 1­–5: Make Your Home a Haven for Online Safety Oct. 8–12: Million...
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The Risk of Convenience

Consolidating passwords and other account information can save time, but expose you to risk… An article review. Given the amount of account related information that the average person is expected to keep track of–such as account numbers, passwords, PINs and se...
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The 12 Billion Dollar Scam

New FBI statistics suggest compromised business email accounts have led to over 12 billion dollars in losses since 2013… An article review. So much attention has been paid to ransomware, botnets and other relatively recent developments that it’s easy to forget...
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Gimmicks and Bribes in Awareness Training

Motivating employees toward awareness can take more than prizes and prodding… An article review. Keeping your employees on top of security related issues can sometimes seem to be a daunting task, and it’s not something that can ever be considered finished: it&...
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Understanding Patch Management

It’s like a recall on your car… A Jolley | Hadaway Article. If you like to stay current on technology news, you’ve probably found it hard to ignore the recent stories about a major security problem with Intel processors, and the rush from software and hardware...
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