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So much of our day to day life is lived online—whether it’s shopping, socializing, or searching for new places to go. Unfortunately, this connectivity also exposes us to unseen and malicious forces in the form of cybersecurity threats. These can have real-world consequences, from the theft of...
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When it comes to Internet scams, there are a wide variety of them targeting people and businesses, and they are increasingly more sophisticated. Over the course of our long history of managing websites and the online presence of clients, we’ve seen more than a few of these scams. So here are...
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When was the last time you changed your passwords? Important accounts like Google, social media, Microsoft, banking, and others that are used daily, are linked to your personal and financial details, and so if someone hacked into them it could be a disaster. One way to protect yourself and...
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In many ways the popular image of internet scams, that of the ‘generous’ Nigerian prince and the distant relative with the common name, can lull people into a false sense of security. In reality, internet scams have developed and are a little more sophisticated and effective than you are...
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If you’ve visited a website at any point in the past few months, you will probably have been prompted with a window asking whether or not you want to ‘accept cookies’ or something with similar wording.
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When it comes to email scams, even the broadest and most basic of these attacks now have an underlying level of sophistication. The most common form they take...
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Email has changed drastically in the last few decades. It is no longer being used to send plain text onto a single device that is checked a couple times a day, and support was relatively simple, as there wasn’t much involved in the whole process. Today however, emails have gotten a lot flashier,...
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You’ve probably heard a lot about Net Neutrality in the last few years, and recently it is back in the news. Canada, and the world, will be affected in many different ways if Net Neutrality in the USA ends. But what does it mean exactly? What is Net Neutrality?
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Picture this: You get a phone message, then another, then another, from your friends asking why you are sending them spam. Your email account has been hacked! You log into Facebook to warn everyone, and notice your last couple of posts from you… weren’t – from – you. Your Facebook account has...
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It seems there's been a little chain-letter-style post making the rounds on Facebook lately, warning about your posts being automatically shared near and far unless you get your friends to remove "Comments & Likes" from their settings for your Facebook page. The thing about those instructions...
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