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Parents Beware—Digital Dangers Lurk for Kids Online
By Denise Szott
October 3, 2018

Parents can’t always keep an eye on their children’s digital lives. Some adults aren’t digital natives, and still others simply don’t have time to monitor their kids’ activities.

To complicate matters, the risks posed by cyber criminals changes all the time. Hackers and cyber crooks don’t stand still; they continually adapt, changing their attack methods to find new victims.

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West Virginia Rolls Out Mobile App Voting
By Travis Taylor
October 1, 2018
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West Virginia has released a mobile app for voting in the 2018 midterm elections in a limited number of counties. The app utilizes blockchain technology and multifactor authentication, and it is primarily intended to enable military members living abroad the opportunity to cast a ballot.

Advocates for the technology extoll the ability for overseas voters to have a more reliable means of voting. West Virginia...

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Facebook Breach: 50 Million Users Affected
By Adam Levin
September 28, 2018

Facebook has had a hard year, and it just got worse. The company announced that it was compromised, and 50 million users were affected. The company discovered the breach on Tuesday, and reported it three days later.

While 50 million users may seem like relatively minor news given the total number of Facebook users out there, it’s roughly the equivalent of the entire population of the west coast of the United States. 

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Retain Customers and Boost Productivity? Here’s How
By CyberScout
September 25, 2018
It costs more to find new customers than hold on to the ones you already have. This is the value proposition of a new offering called CyberScout HQ, which has created a platform that any company can use to help customers with a variety of issues. It’s the first online marketplace for identity management, privacy and cybersecurity education, products and services. 
 
 
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How Poor Cybersecurity and One Bad Hire Could Cost Your Company Millions
By Adam Levin
September 24, 2018
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Sixteen counts of fraud, gross negligence, invasion of privacy, unauthorized disclosure of confidential customer records, violation of a consent decree, failure to supervise its...

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State Department's Email Server Breached
By Travis Taylor
September 20, 2018
email server breach

An email server containing “sensitive but unclassified” data belonging to the State Department was breached, the government agency announced earlier this month. The information included personally identifiable information of an undisclosed number of employees who have since been notified.

While the breach itself is relatively minor, it highlights the relative lack of progress made by the department to enact...

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