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They Even Know Whats In This Post! If you don’t already know, the governments and ISP’s around the world are tightening their grasp and monitoring everything. The Trump administration just revoked the Internet Privacy act so now all the ISP’s can and are recording everything you do online.   They are logging everything, they are recording your Social Security Number, your health details, financial information as well as your browsing data and the contents of your emails! This is not…

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Everyone, even people who aren’t skilled with computers, knows that browsing the web comes with certain privacy risks. The sites you visit, what you do while you’re there, where you’re physically located, and which internet-connected apps you use are all broadcast to your internet service provider (ISP). In October 2016 the FCC approved rules that would prevent ISPs from gathering that data and reselling it without consumer consent, and yesterday the US House of Representatives overturned those rules, The bill…

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In January, Wombat Security Technologies released its 2016 State of the Phish report, detailing the current phishing landscape. The research report found that, while these phishing attacks are growing in sheer number, they are also growing in their complexity based on the practices used to implement them. To most enterprise professionals, especially those working in IT, it’s understood that phishing is still a common threat. However, 85% of those surveyed for this report said that they had been the victim…

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Increases of global information security threats remain as much a certainty as death and taxes, at least according to the latest Information Security Survey from PWC. That report, which was published in October, highlights several troublesome trends and provides valuable information for those concerned with enterprise IT security. Nonetheless, interpreting the information delivered into applicable best practices remains a challenge for many IT security professionals. Especially those who will be assigned the task of keep their organizations from becoming one…

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Net neutrality is in the news again, but if you’re like most people, you aren’t even totally sure what it is. With a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision on Net neutrality poised to change the face of the Internet, it’s worth addressing what exactly Net neutrality is and what it means to the average Internet user. What Is Net Neutrality? Net neutrality is the proposition that all data traveling through the Internet should be treated equally by all Internet…

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Google has purchased Word Lens, an impressive app that translates foreign languages in real time using the iPhone and Android smartphone built-in camera. It’s now free for a limited time. Back in 2010, a company called Quest Visual debuted a little app called Word Lens. It scarcely seemed possible, but the app translated a number of different languages in real time using just the smartphone’s camera. When traveling in a foreign country, Word Lens users would simply hold the phone…

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Is your company ready to start using IPv6 addresses for its Internet addresses? You’d better be. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is down to its last allotment of old-style IPv4 addresses and the clock is counting down. In an announcement, Leslie Nobile, Registration Services Director for ARIN which oversees the assigning of Internet addresses for Canada, the United States, and much of the Caribbean, said, “ARIN is down to its final /8 of available space in its inventory and…

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Microsoft is hard at work on Windows 9, while pleading with users to make a switch off of the archaic Windows XP. One way Microsoft can reduce friction and improve the adoption rate of new versions of Windows is to simply make the operating system free. With less than two months left until Microsoft officially ends support for Windows XP, the operating system still has nearly a third of the desktop market, according to NetMarketShare. What if cost wasn’t a…

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On March 18, 2013, news went around the world about one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in history, launched against a site called Spamhaus, in which attackers not only went after the organization’s website itself, but also its providers and some Tier 1 Internet exchanges as well, causing potential collateral damage. Since then however, the situation has only become more complex, with rumors flying around that the attack was not as bad as reported, and hints…

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Some organizations intend to keep using Windows XP even in the post-apocalyptic world after Microsoft ends support in 12 months. It’s a calculated risk and one they should weigh up carefully. Even the spectre of security breaches and crashing apps is failing to convince some Windows XP-using organisations to abandon the OS before Microsoft cuts off support in a year’s time. Recent figures, suggest one in five companies using XP plans to stick with it despite the  April 8,2014 deadline,…

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