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How to Recover from A Phishing Attack – Part 2

Introduction Our last blog examined the steps that you need to take in order to recover from a Phishing attack. In this one, we can continue with that theme. The Steps Remediation: This is deemed to be one of the most critical phases; as this is where the damage of the Phishing attack will be contained. This ...

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Thousands of Google Calendars Are Leaking Private Information Online

"Warning — Making your calendar public will make all events visible to the world, including via Google search. Are you sure?" Remember this security warning? No? If you have ever shared your Google Calendars, or maybe inadvertently, with someone that should not be publicly accessible anymore, you should immediately go back to your Google settings and check ...

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Deploying Mobile Devices Securely – Part 2

Introduction In this blog, we continue our series on how to secure wireless devices at your place of business. How to Secure Mobile Devices in Your Environment 1)  Always test your mobile security policy and threat landscape before implementing it: Before you start to implement and enforce your policies, it is always important to evaluate them first in a ...

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How to Recover from A Phishing Attack – Part 1

Introduction Our last series of blogs closely examined the details of a Spear Phishing Attack. But whoever or whatever the target is, once the damage is done, efforts need to be taken to mitigate the damage, and try to find ways so that these types of attacks don’t happen again. In this series of blogs, we examine ...

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KAMIND IT Features Article with Portland Business Journal

On September 6th, 2019 KAMIND IT published an article with Portland Business Journal titled “Steps to take if your company’s data has been breached” This article was written by KAMIND IT’s CEO Matthew Katzer and Creative Director Jack Biehn, and covers what necessary steps Organizations should take when facing a cybersecurity breach. Click on the ...

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What Advanced Threat Protection Is

Introduction When looking at Cyberattacks that occurred over the last few years, while quite devastating, the good news (if you can call it that) was that they could be detected and mitigated. Once this happened, whatever pieces of evidence still remained could then be collected, and studied by a Forensics Investigations team in order to conduct ...

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What Do Email Phishing Scams Do? Best Practices for Protecting Your Information

Email Phishing scams are carried out online by tech-savvy con artists and identity theft criminals. They use spam, fake websites constructed to look identical to real sites, email and instant messages to trick you into divulging sensitive information, like bank account passwords and credit card numbers. Once you take the phisher's bait, they can use ...

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Deploying Mobile Devices Securely – Part 1

Introduction As we all know, mobile devices have become not an integral part of the workplace, but even in society. Therefore, the safe deployment of these devices is of paramount importance not just for individuals, but businesses and corporations, government agencies, as well as other entities. For example: Mobile devices have indeed become an integral part of ...

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Portland Public Schools nearly scammed out of $2.9 million

Portland Public Schools was bilked for $2.9 million when a fraudster posing as one of the district’s construction contractors hoodwinked employees into green lighting the payment, district officials say. The swindle was caught while the millions were still in the fraudster’s bank account, and the money should be returned to the district’s Wells Fargo account in ...

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The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) – Part 1

Introduction There are many security tools (such as those of Firewalls, Network Intrusion Devices, Routers, etc.) out there that can alert a Network Administrator of any penetrations that are occurring.  But these devices, for the most part, can only detect those Cyberthreats that are coming from the external environment. In addition to this, what is also needed ...

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