Security Insights
Expert tips, industry trends, and practical advice to keep your business secure.
Why CPA's Need Next Level Cybersecurity
As a chartered professional accountant (CPA), you hold a great deal of important and private information that may need to be held for years on end. Cybercriminals know this and will target CPA's accordingly.
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The Safety Risks of DNA Testing Kits
DNA test kits are easily accessible and affordable, however, studies show that the information shared with users are not always accurate and could lead to misinformation. Alongside this, it is a major privacy issue.
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The Information You Give Away When Sending A Photo
Every time you take a photo using your smartphone, a ton of metadata is collected such as the time and location the picture was taken, and much more.
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Online Shopping Safety Tips
With more people online shopping, cybercriminals are taking this opportunity to take advantage of online shoppers and to potentially trick them into giving away personal information and funds through malicious activities. The major area we're seeing this take place on is through phishing emails.
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Avoid This Facebook Phishing Scam
Have you been getting odd messages on Facebook from friends or family saying "I think you're in this video" and then attached to that message is a strange link?
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Understanding Spoofing Attacks
Spoofing is the term used to describe a situation when a cybercriminal impersonates a device or user on a network to trick an individual into sharing private information.
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Hit By Ransomware? Here's What You Should Do
Ransomware is on the rise especially with more individuals and businesses moving online. In 2020, we saw huge increases in online activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and heading into 2021 and future years, we should expect those numbers to soar even higher.
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How To Prevent Zero-Day Attacks
When a business, organization, or individual experiences a hardware or software vulnerability that has been exploited by a cybercriminal, we call this a zero-day attack.
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How Private is Incognito Mode?
Many of us use the incognito feature on our browsers for different reasons, but do we really know what the incognito browser hides?
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How Cybercriminals Use Legitimate Websites To Scam You
Have you ever come across a suspicious looking email but the website linked to it appears legit or you may have actually used it in the past and it was safe?
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SMS Security Codes Are Not As Secure As You Thought
If you use Amazon, Facebook, Paypal, Uber, etc., you have probably encountered 2-factor authentication (2FA) messages to your phone usually with a code.While this intention for an added layer of security is a move in the right direction, SMS messages are not the secure route you'll want to receive security codes on.
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Why You Need Email Security For Your Business
We are all very accustomed to clicking links and downloading files from our email, and this makes it easy for cybercriminals to find access points to our inboxes.
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