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Dropbox Hacked: Yet Another Argument for Better Encryption

You may have heard that 68 million Dropbox users were recently told by the company that they needed to change their passwords due to a general hack of their database. The hack occurred in 2012, but it was only after years of persistent rumors by Netizens and cybersecurity mavens that Dropbox finally came clean about…

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FTC Chief Technologist’s Mobile Phone Number and Account Hijacked

And How You Can Learn from This Mishap How is it that the Federal Trade Commission’s Chief Technology Officer – a woman by the name of Lorrie Cranor – had her mobile phone account hijacked? Apparently, it was all too easy: Someone posing as Cranor walked into a mobile phone store posing as her, said…

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Welcome to the Age of Exponential Progress and Innovation

The world is changing faster than we can even say. Entire industries and ways of life are being outmoded, re-adapted, and re-envisioned. Look at what has happened in the world of business and technology just in the last 20 years. Photographic giant Kodak sold 85% of the photo paper worldwide in 1998, and had 170,000…

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Ransomware 101: The Latest Hacking Technique Lock Your Files On Google Drive

In April the FBI issued a warning that a sharp increase in ransomware attacks had occurred over the past year. In support of this warning, Kaspersky Labs reported that there was a 500 percent year-to-year increase in the number of ransomware attacks from 2014 – 2015 to 2015 – 2016. These reports make it clear…

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Get LinkedIn Responses

We all know the power of having good LinkedIn connections and communications. It means good business, to be able to hook up with colleagues and associates in and even beyond your industry. It’s even better when you can reach out to a prospective contact and say “Here’s who I am, and what I do” and…

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