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    10 Things I Know About ... Passwords

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    Michelle Drolet

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    Four Steps to Respond & Recover from Sophisticated Security Attacks

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    Michelle Drolet

    Great information in SC Magazine’s latest whitepaper report, ‘Four steps to respond and recover from sophisticated security attacks’, it discusses the four proactive steps that you can – and should – take now to help keep your organization safe. Click here to view more details: http://bit.ly/131uu2J As we all know, cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated every year. At the same time, IT resources are moving outside the firewall and enterprises are distributing their applications and datafalse

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    New LinkedIn E-Mail Scam

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    Michelle Drolet

    Hi all, there is an e-mail scam doing the rounds. The message is an invite from some random person you won’t know with a link (how original). If you get such a message don’t use the link, check your LinkedIn account as if it’s a legit request it will be there waiting for approval. Even if it is legit, make sure you vet all invite requests carefully. I have had several dodgy requests from what I believe to be bogus profiles who are likely up to no good. LinkedIn is about the quality of yourfalse

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    Facebook leaks are a lot leakier than Facebook is letting on

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    Michelle Drolet

    Remember last week, Facebook leaked email addresses and phone numbers for 6 million users, but that it was really kind of a modest leak, given that it's a billion-user service? OK, scratch the "modest" part. The researchers who originally found out that Facebook is actually creating secret dossiers for users are now saying the numbers don't quite match up. The number of affected users Facebook noted in a posting on its security blog is far less than what they themselves found, and Facebook isfalse

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    Towerwall and the Information Security Summit highlighted in SearchSecurity.com Article

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    Michelle Drolet

    Check out Search Security's article - "HIPAA Omnibus Rule, PPACA challenge enterprise compliance management", where our own Natalie Kmit and the Information Security Summit 2013 are highlighted:

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    Top Ten Malicious Lists

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    Michelle Drolet

    Top Ten Malicious URLs Top 10 malicious URLs blocked by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure in 2012

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    Introducing Towerwall's VOIP Assessment Services

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    Michelle Drolet

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    Introducing Towerwall's Threat Spotlight

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    Michelle Drolet

    We are proud to announce our Threat Spotlight, sign up for our Twitter feed and get the latest threats and how to protect against them.

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    The worst passwords you could ever choose

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    Michelle Drolet

    For those on our Security Alert and Update list we just emailed this great article by Graham Cluley on the worst possible passwords you could ever choose. Many of you know this is something we preach to our clients on a regular basis and is part of our comprehensive 4E Program. Too many internet users are making poor decisions when choosing their passwords. We've spoken time and time again about the importance of choosing hard-to-crack, unguessable, unique passwords that (provided the websitefalse

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    Recommended Reading for Every Entrepreneur

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    Michelle Drolet

    Boston Business Journal asked Towerwall for required reading for every entrepreneur. Michelle Drolet recommends “The Power of Nice” by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. Nice companies have lower turnover and higher productivity. Click here to read the article.

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