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Technical Tuesday: Privacy Policies (an Overview)
A few weeks ago a fellow employee told me a story about how her daughter was contacted via text message by someone to whom she had never given her number, and when asked the boy who contacted her stated that he was able to get her phone number off of a list of Florida Residents. This employee as a mother was shocked and wanted to know how to fix this. So I told her about her privacy policies and how to tweak them to not share your information. In the next two months of Technical Tuesdays, We are going to explore social media and also some of the larger companies…
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Technical Tuesday: How To Stay Safe On Public Wi-Fi
Many of us today are surrounded by free or public Wi-Fi. Burt that is not the necessarily a good thing. In our modern day society we are all attached to our phones/ Mobile devices and basically our entire lives are on them. Meaning that our banking information our bill pay systems and our private emails/ text are all right there. Personally, I try to never use public Wi-Fi if its at all possible. There are a few reasons for this But for the purpose of the post I am going to state the top 3 dangers and also give you some options on how to stay safe. The first on…
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Technical Tuesday: 5 Steps To Take When You Think You Have Been Hacked.
A long time ago… I was personally hacked. This person got ahold of one of my passwords and he/she used it to access a lot of information. I got mad. Why would someone do this? What did I do that allowed them to gain that information? How could I stop this in the Future? So, I started reading every data policy I encountered… Hence the extensive knowledge that led to What do our Data Policies really say? This also made me extremely aware of my bank accounts and transactions and any vulnerable information. Believe me there is a lot out there. In fact, one of the biggest security flaws in…
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Technical Tuesday: Web Browsers and the WWW
Do you remember the time of clicking the AOL Web browser and seeing the little yellow man running across the screen? Or the time spent sitting waiting for that picture to appear line by line? I Do. And its pretty amazing how far we have come in the last 15 years. The internet used to be a novelty but now everyone has it. Even our pets have their own social media accounts. We even had to create a digital storage that exist inside the Internet called the Cloud, because we like to save things so often. But what is a web browser and how do you use it? A web…
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Technical Tuesday: Connecting with the world around you.
How to stay safe online. A lot of people don’t think about Internet Security but really how safe are you online? What programs do you have in place that keep you from going into the unknown? What practices do you keep yourself? These are all questions that I ask when I am helping someone with their internet security. Security online goes a lot further then just installing some program that is labeled Internet Security. What do I mean? Keep reading to find out. 🙂 Internet Security is how safe you are on the Internet. Well… How safe your supposed to be. But in reality… that Internet Security Program that cost…
