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    • Blog / Password Policies Are More Than Just Paperwork password policies as part of protecting online privacy There are plenty of regulations out there when it comes to your organization’s electronic security. The most common ones I’ve encountered are PIPA (Personal Information Protection Act, an Alberta regulation that governs the protection of personal information),  PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a federal version of the Albertan act) and PCI-DSS (Payment […] October 26, 2021
    Blog / How to approach computer and IT security Road sign about IT security approaches How do you approach IT security? Where do you start and what should you do? These are great questions that people ask all the time because IT security is an understandably specialized field that requires more training than natural skill. There’s a lot that you need to know before you even start to get good […] October 19, 2021
    Blog / Are you important enough to get hacked? There’s an interesting misconception out there—a myth, if you will—that your organization is too small and unimportant to be worth hacking or being held to a ransomware demand. It’s comforting to believe, for any reason, that your organization won’t suffer an attack. It may not be true, but it’s comforting. I think this belief comes […] October 12, 2021
    Blog / Watering Hole Attacks: What they are and how to avoid them Watering hole attacks represented by a do not drink sign I’ve talked about many different kinds of attacks over the course of this newsletter. Ransomware gets a lot of attention (since it’s such a common attack), but I’ve also talked about phishing, social engineering, cross-site scripting and other types of attacks. It’s important to understand the vocabulary of computer security if you don’t want to […] October 05, 2021
    Blog / Have you heard of a thing called smishing? Person opening a smishing message on their phone One thing you should understand about computer people is that we love to give things funny or clever names, and we love our acronyms. Computer hardware storage sizes are a great example. It’s all about bits and bytes (and there’s even an old out-of-use term known as a nibble). These are real terms that I’m […] September 28, 2021
    Blog / Email Security Is More Important Than Ever Padlock and envelopes concept of email security Email is an amazing tool that just about everyone is at least partly familiar with. Every day, millions of emails are sent across the globe. But that’s not even the most amazing thing about it. The truly incredible thing about email is its complete and utter lack of built-in security. That’s right. When you boil […] September 21, 2021
    Blog / Computer Security Basics Are Always Evolving Business man upgrading computer security practices What’s considered common sense in computer security is always changing. In fact, if I had to describe the world of computer security in one word, it would be ‘volatile’. Unfortunately too many people think this just means the bad guys are constantly evolving their tactics. Too often they forget that, in this context, volatility also […] September 14, 2021
    Blog / Layered Security is Your Network’s Best Defense Layered security represented by three interlocking padlocks Another day, another breach of a major company. This time around it’s T-Mobile, one of the major US cellular carriers, who apparently wasn’t using layered security as part of their defenses. The hacker claiming to be responsible is active on Twitter, and claims the attack was politically motivated by an alleged abduction and subsequent torture […] September 07, 2021
    Blog / Website Monitoring and Traffic Filtering for Businesses Camera against circuit symbolizing website monitoring When the internet was first invented we thought it was going to be a boon for humanity. Unfortunately, although it was easy to see the internet’s potential for good, it was just as easy for the criminals to see its potential for exploitation. From a business perspective, this meant things like leaking inside information, wasting […] August 31, 2021
    Blog / The Threat of Quadruple Extortion Hacker getting paid after using a quadruple extortion ransomware attack Ransomware is making headlines yet again with “quadruple extortion”. As regular readers know by now, ransomware has become hackers’ preferred mode of attack. Just in case you don’t know by now, ransomware is malicious software that encrypts files and holds them hostage until the victim, usually a business of some kind, pays a ransom to […] August 24, 2021

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