Posts Tagged: Passwords
December 29, 2020 Cyber SecurityBy: Eric Woodard TechnologyBy: Eric Woodard
Five Reasons Multi-factor Authentication is a Must for 2021
Five Reasons Multi-factor Authentication is a Must for 2021 The dawn of the new year is a great time for new beginnings. For many small businesses, now is a perfect time to tackle some of…
October 2, 2018 BusinessBy: Eric Woodard Tips and TricksBy: Eric Woodard
What You Need to Know About the Facebook Security Breach
On September 25th, Facebook had a massive security breach. This breach affected close to 50 million user accounts. This attack is a reminder about the dangers posed when a small number of companies like Facebook…
July 26, 2018 Cyber SecurityBy: Eric Woodard
Is Your Company Email Secure?
Email is a very important tool that every business uses to communicate. Business owners depend on it to talk with their internal team, clients, and vendors. Because company email typically contain confidential and proprietary information,…
June 13, 2018 Cyber SecurityBy: Eric Woodard
How to Keep Data Safe While Working Remotely
The number of people working remotely or from home is rising every year. A Gallup study found that in 2016, 43 percent of American workers spent at least some of their workweek in a remote…
Summer is just around the corner and the temperature outside is starting to rise. Activity in the world of breach is also going up and there doesn’t seem to be any signs of it slowing…
When was the last time you changed your password? If you are like most people, you probably haven’t done it for a while. Today is a good day to do it because it is World…
April 20, 2017 Cyber SecurityBy: Eric Woodard Tech NewsBy: Eric Woodard
Microsoft Looks to Eliminate Passwords
Passwords are just SO last year, right?? Well, according to Microsoft, passwords may just be a thing of the past soon, and they are looking to lead the way! Microsoft announced this week that they…
March 14, 2017 Tips and TricksBy: Eric Woodard
Keep Your Passwords Secure
As a managed IT support company, we can tell you that we’ve seen (and heard) our fair share of password no no’s. There’s nothing that will shake our heads faster than approaching someone’s workstation and…
October 26, 2016 MiscellaneousBy: Eric Woodard
New Age of Passwords Involves Brain Passwords?
As far as computer security is concerned, passcodes, Touch ID, and iris scanning are so September 2016. These days, it seems all the cool kids are looking at brain wave detection as the next frontier in unbeatable passwords….
November 26, 2014 MiscellaneousBy: Eric Woodard
Two-Factor Authentication: What Does the Future Hold?
Passwords are slowly becoming obsolete in the face of more powerful security solutions. This is especially true considering how a hacker can input millions of characters every second in an attempt to break into your…
Do you see those black clouds culminating on the horizon? They represent the possibility that hackers will gain access to your cloud storage. Though it is protected a number of ways, it will not stop…
April 16, 2014 IT ServicesBy: Eric Woodard
The Heartbleed Fallout
Last week, the Heartbleed fallout bug was identified as a weakness in the OpenSSL cryptographic library, potentially leaking two-thirds of the Internet’s secure information from any websites utilizing this encryption style. While most major websites…
April 11, 2014 IT ServicesBy: Eric Woodard
Alert: Heartbleed Bug Threatens Popular Websites!
On April 7th, a new bug on the Internet was discovered that’s putting millions of users’ personal data at risk. Given the name “Heartbleed bug,” it’s capable of allowing infiltrators to collect information while you…
February 7, 2014 IT ServicesBy: Eric Woodard
What is your Identity Worth to You?
Your identity has quite a lot of value, especially in the wrong hands. Security firm ZoneAlarm put together some numbers in 2011 concerning identity fraud, and it even shocked us. Let’s talk about a few of these statistics and what it means.