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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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    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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    U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War

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    Michelle Drolet

    There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal in which the top cyber cop Shawn Henry, spoke how we are loosing the battle with the hackers. At times the hackers can keep up us all night worrying about our networks, employee actions whether intentional or not, we need to remain vigilant and on the offensive to prevent attacks. Government regulations are not going to control hackers in fact they probably will make companies less secure. Vigilance on the part of organizations will helpfalse

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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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    Can you stamp out spambots? No, but you can help

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    Michelle Drolet

    The headline reads, “FBI warns of new malware targeting bank accounts," but it could just as well say, “More new victims born from opening emails.” From the simple act of opening an email and clicking on an attachment, the victim's username and password to their bank accounts are stolen by a process called keylogging, where the info is presto, logged directly from your very fingers as you type in your credentials. What's scary is that bogus emails can appear to come from someone you know is afalse

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