Your smartphone could save your life You don't have to look far to find evidence of tragedies in the wake of hurricanes and other natural disasters. Loved ones are separated, people vanish, pets are lost, and it quickly becomes a fight for survival in the face of deadly weather and complete chaos. Getting through a [...]
Clearing your cache and cookies can often be a simple fix for some common web performance issues. Here's how to do it in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and Opera. The cache and cookies in your web browser are intended to help websites load faster and make your overall web browsing experience more efficient. However, they [...]
Phishing attacks are a major source of worry for businesses. Here are a few tips on keeping malicious messages out of your users' inboxes and minimizing the risk when they make it there. Hacking is hard work. That may explain why so many would-be cybercriminals turn to phishing. It's easy, you can hit lots of [...]
How to Select a Trustworthy VPN With a plethora of virtual private network (VPN) providers to choose from, how can you decide which are secure? TechRepublic's Dan Patterson met with Andy Yen, CEO and founder of Protonmail, to discuss how VPNs work and how to tell if it's safe to connect your device. VPNs are [...]
HIPAA Compliance and Your Dental Office HIPAA POLICY AND PROCEDURES are overall requirements to implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain, and correct security violations. A Risk Assessment should be performed periodically to discusses implementing the recommend safeguards that where identified in the Risk Assessment. Security Management Policy Discusses that an organization must develop [...]
7 Ways to Protect Your Servers When it comes to IT security, physical security is the foundation for our overall strategy. But some organizations, distracted by the more sophisticated features of software-based security products, may overlook the importance of ensuring that the network and its components have been protected at the physical level. #1: Lock [...]
20 years ago, Eugene Kaspersky founded Kaspersky Lab. You'll find the anti-malware software the company develops installed on computers all over the world. You won't, however, find it installed on U.S. government computers if the Department of Homeland Security has its way. Today, the DHS issued a "binding operational directive" that called on all Federal [...]
ENSURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP – If you have an Off Site Backup Plan with DDS all you need to do is take your local external backup device with you prior to the storm, everyone else please read below. Do not wait until the day before a hurricane to back up your files, you should be [...]