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Dumpster diving is the practice of combing through commercial or residential waste to find items that have been discarded by their owners. During tax....

In typical consultant fashion, the answer is: ‘yes' or 'it depends'. It’s important to know the difference between these functions and it’s important....

Shoulder surfing certainly is not the most technical form of identity theft, but it has been an effective means to commit fraud. Shoulder surfing is....

The shortage of talent in the cyber security industry is a growing concern among many industry leaders and the pain is specifically palpable within....

Tax season is officially upon us, and with it brings out a host of scams against taxpayers. In this blog series we explore three specific attacks....

Ransomware is a term used to describe malware that is installed on a user’s computing device (without the user’s knowledge or permission), that....

It’s the same routine every year during tax season, employers send out important tax information such as W-2s to their employees, television and radio....

We often don’t worry about network security outside of work and at times, we probably don’t even worry about it while we’re at work. When we stop....

Many of us are consumers of technology, I would consider myself in the upper echelon of this group. I own multiple laptops, desktops, servers, cloud....

Are you an IT professional responsible for your user’s network? You are not protected by the legal system’s defense “innocent until proven guilty” in....

Remember that the main point of credit card tokenization is to keep PANs (Primary Account Numbers) out of the main application-hosting environment....

It is that time of year when managers and direct reports should be getting together to set performance goals and objectives for the upcoming year....