Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of July 1, 2016
IRS Protection for Taxpayer Information The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that the electronic filing PIN tool will no longer be available. These e-File PINs were being accessed by ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of June 24, 2016
Google Simplifying Two-Step Verification Two-step verification is an important feature used by many companies. With the use of a phone or a secondary email, a user can provide additional ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of June 17, 2016
Business Email Compromise Scams On Tuesday the FBI released a public service announcement warning that there has been a major spike in business email compromise (BEC) scams. BEC scams are ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of June 10, 2016
Malware: Trojans One of the most common types of malware today is the Trojan Horse malware. It is a type of malware that is usually disguised as a legitimate program. The malicious task is ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of June 3, 2016
Electronic Devices in Cars Many computing systems are now standard, and even expected, in newer cars: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS for example. This poses some security risks because many of these ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of May 27, 2016
Microsoft Banning Bad Passwords Microsoft has moved to ban bad or commonly used passwords. In the Microsoft Account Service platform, there will be a new feature that will prevent users from ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of May 20, 2016
Tech Support Scammers Locking Windows Computers There is a new trick tech support scammers are using when trying to get users to share their credit card information. A screen locker will show ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of May 13, 2016
Preparing Your Network for the IoT Revolution With the rapid increase of Internet Connectivity for each person, there is also an increase in security demands as well. It is estimated that by 2020 ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of May 6, 2016
The Linux Foundation and the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) launched a Best Practices Badge program this week. The goal of the programs is to help companies with adopting open source ...
Best Practices Weekly Summary for Week of April 22, 2016
Ransomware is a growing problem for cyber security. Every day it seems that there is a new ransomware being discovered, and cyber security professionals are having a hard time keeping up. Most ...