Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
By now, you may have heard of the security breach at mass email marketing company Epsilon, where the names and email addresses of thousands, if not millions, of people have been stolen. The current list of companies include: 1-800-Flowers AbeBooks Ameriprise Financial Barclays Bank Best Buy Brookstone Citibank Disney Destinations Hilton Worldwide JP Morgan Chase…
Get used to it. Moving things to the “Cloud” is becoming more popular. So will the data breaches… Company data belonging to customers of Microsoft’s hosted business suite BPOS has been accessed and downloaded by other users of the software. Read more…Microsoft BPOS cloud service hit with data breach – Computerworld.
Washington Post story which clearly illustrates why you need to be careful with file sharing programs like Limewire, despite the peer-to-peer (P2P) application arena having enormous potential. Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network…
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