Cybersecurity
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Recently, we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of phishing cyber-attacks aimed at Office 365 users. It’s so bad that almost three quarters (71.4 percent) of corporate Office 365 users have at least one compromised account each month, according to a report by Skyhigh Networks. If you are not taking Office 365 security…
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Welcome to SandStorm IT’s 6-part series about Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). In this series, we’ll cover what PCI DSS is and the various requirements: Part 1 – What is PCI DSS? Part 2- Building and Maintaining a Secure Network (You are here) Part 3 – Protecting Data Part 4 – Further…
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Day by day, we do more and more through our web browsers. We perform daily work tasks like checking and sending email, visiting websites to learn about news in our chosen fields, and work in web-based operational systems all through our browsers, and outside of the office, we use those same browsers to check our…
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What is SPAM? SPAM is junk mail that you receive that you didn’t sign up for. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as e-mails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places“. And none of us are immune…
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Adobe Flash, originally released by Macromedia in 1995, is a once widely used and vastly capable web application platform. In 2005 Flash player was installed on more devices than any other internet-based media application, including Java, Quicktime, and Windows Media Player. Flash media player still exists today but has been widely deprecated over the last…
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Welcome to SandStorm IT’s 6-part series about Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). In this series, we’ll cover what PCI DSS is and the various requirements: Part 1 – What is PCI DSS? (You are here) Part 2- Building and Maintaining a Secure Network Part 3 – Protecting Data Part 4 – Further…
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This blog post was inspired by some recent news I heard about a company some of my friends work for. They just had an incident where someone spoofed the email address of an executive in the company and all of the employees’ W-2s were emailed to an unknown party. All of the people that work…
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According to Macy’s, their e-commerce website was breached in October. Hackers managed to steal information from unknowing customers as they shopped online. Overall, it’s a very scary situation that proves that data breaches can happen to anyone. Last year, online tech store Newegg was hit with a data breach that skimmed the payments page for…
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Microsoft is urging users of Windows 10 to update immediately. The flaw lies in Internet Explorer and allows an attacker to potentially install software, modify/view/delete data or even create new accounts. The vulnerability was found by a security engineer with Google’s Threat Analysis Group. The update is for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows…
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With the latest in face recognition and other biometric technology coming to the consumer level, biometric security may begin to cross your mind. You may wonder “Is biometric actually more secure?” The short answer is that it’s stronger than using a weak password, but not as strong as using a strong password. For more info…
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