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New Business Opportunity for IT Pros: Law Firm Security
The Recorder details how law firms are the latest industry to come under scrutiny for their lax cyber security standards. Some clients are even requiring their lawyers to demonstrate that they have...
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What's the Latest on the Net Neutrality Debate?
The Washington Post reports that the Federal Communications Commission proposal to alter net neutrality regulations has passed when the agency voted 3-2 to impose public utility regulations on Internet...
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Can Kill Switches Boost Security for Your Clients?
A kill-switch-enabled mobile device allows mobile users to "brick" their phone, encrypting all its data and essentially making it useless to thieves who steal it.So are kill switches good for your...
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Report: 70% of Last Year's Data Breaches Should Have Been Prevented
ZDNet reports that the majority of data breaches involve vulnerabilities that companies should have fixed long ago. Here's a roundup of the exploits we saw in 2014:70 percent of the top exploits had...
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Good News: Updated HIPAA Guidelines Take Some Pressure off IT Professionals
IT contractors who work with healthcare companies are no doubt familiar with how difficult it can be to meet the high standards set by HIPAA and HITECH data privacy laws. Fortunately, new HIPAA...
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Have Healthcare Clients? Time to Beef Up Your Data Security Practices
The Cheat Sheet reports that data breaches cost $400 billion each year, and while we often read about retail data breaches, attacks on healthcare companies are actually the most costly. In fact, the...
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IT Business Owners Missing Out on Biggest Source of Stress for Employees
A GFI Software survey on the top sources of IT stress found that 28 percent of IT admins claim that management is the biggest source of their stress. Other common sources included problems with users,...
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What United's Bug Bounty Program Means for Your Business
United Airlines earned some press last week when it announced a new bug bounty program that will offer free airline miles to white hat hackers who find bugs in the airline's website and mobile apps....
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Buzzword Alert: Should "Threat Intelligence" Be on Your Menu of Services?
A key part of growing your IT contracting business is effectively marketing your services to connect new clients with appropriate IT solutions. Sometimes that means knowing which "buzzwords" to use....
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Threatpost reports that Pinterest – the popular pin board social media site – released information about an old vulnerability that it fixed months ago. The flaw would have exposed user account...
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