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Election Season: Another Favorite for Scammers

Election season scams Political candidates will target voters to get their message across, and hackers will take advanta...

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FBI Issues E-Skimming Warning

Skim This Over Recently the FBI issued a warning against e-skimming threats in response to the increase of attacks on sm...

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Stripe Customers Targeted by Phishing Email

New Lures for Phishing A recent security alert from the online payment processing company Stripe has informed users of a...

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Twitter Unintentionally Used 2FA Info for Targeted Ads

There’s a tweet that has Twitter aflutter. It includes the news that Twitter inadvertently sent users’ email addresses a...

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2019 Cybersecurity Checklist

How Does the 2019 Cybersecurity Checklist Apply to Wilmington, NC?When considering how the 2019 cybersecurity checklist ...

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The Little Things That Go a Long Way

It’s the Little Things When we think about cybersecurity, we might first imagine big data centers being guarded.  Hacker...

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Words With Friends Hack Could Affect 218 Million Users

I’d Like a Word with You In fact, I’d like a word with all 218 million of you.  Yes, that is the number of users in the ...

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Breach Secure Now’s Initiative for Online Safety Awareness

October 1, 2019 — Breach Secure Now! today announced its commitment to National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), h...

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Know Better – Do Better

Knowledge is power.  And when it comes to fighting hackers, we need all the power we can collectively find.  Educating y...

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Payment Share App Safety

Instant Money…Maybe? The popular commercial asks, “What’s in your wallet?” and if you ask most anyone, it probably isn’t...

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Hacker Helper

Are You a Hacker Helper? Here you go, let me get the door for you.  Are you looking for access to my company’s network? ...

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Security Risk Rate vs. Spend Rate

Security Risk Rate vs. Spend Rate According to the 2019 SMB IT Security Report from Untangle, 80% of the small to medium...