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Capitalizing on a Crisis: Phishing Attacks During COVID-19

0 seconds] What would be your reaction to a pickpocket who was caught stealing from health care professionals tending to COVID-19 patients in an emergency room? Shock,...
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Personal Data Theft: Can We Prevent or Only Manage?

Author: Mark Ciampa   Suppose you lived hundreds of years ago and were the king of small nation (work with me here). An enemy has become angry with you and threatens to...
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Let’s Take a 20/20 Look at the Top Jobs in 2020

Onward to a new decade and a plethora of new opportunities in the realm of computing. So is our field expanding or contracting? Well don’t worry on bit! There is a huge...
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Biometric Laws

40 seconds] “Biometrics” has become the buzzword today for authentication. No matter where you turn, instead of entering a password you’re asked to swipe your finger or...
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Lottery Tickets and Passwords

What in the world do lottery tickets and passwords have in common? Perhaps more than you may think. Last week (Oct 23 2018) someone in South Carolina purchased the winning lottery ticket...
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My favorite Office 2019 Feature – LinkedIn Resume Assistant for Word

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft Office 2019 has some neat features that allow your creative juices to flow. Let me start with my personal favorite – Microsoft Word and the LinkedIn Resume Assistant. Microsoft purchased...
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One Way to Prevent Student Cheating

[Reading Time – 1 minute 52 seconds] Cheating on exams has been around as long as there have been exams. Yet with the use of technology cheating today has become much more...
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What is the Dark Web?

45 seconds] This morning I received an email that an outside company used by our school had suffered a data breach. The names of school employees and...
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