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Help Your Young Ones Learn to Program

by Mike Foster | Jul 6, 2016 | Children, Cybersecurity, Learn to Program, Scratch

Mitch Resnick made a TED Talk entitled “Let’s teach kids to code.” He says that knowing how to code is an essential part of literacy. MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, created a programming language for kids called Scratch. I swore I would keep my kids...

GoToMyPC Forcing Reset of Passwords

by Mike Foster | Jun 21, 2016 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity, GoToMyPC, IT Best Practices, Security Breach, Technology Safety Tips

GoToMyPC announced that they suffered a recent attack. Once again, this affected users who had used the same password at other sites too. Congratulations to you readers who have implemented two-step logon. The site twofactorauth dot org provides a list of services...

Sleep Deprivation Makes Attackers’ Dreams Come True

by Mike Foster | Jun 8, 2016 | Best Practices, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Technology Safety, Technology Safety Tips

Your team’s healthy sleep stops hackers. Often, an attacker’s primary goal is to trick your workers. Trick them into clicking a link, opening an attachment, or following instructions that supposedly come from their boss. So, one of the best ways to protect your...

Urgent Alert – TeamViewer Security Weakness

by Mike Foster | Jun 6, 2016 | Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, TeamViewer, Technology Safety Tips

Many users of TeamViewer are reporting that attackers are compromising their systems. Even users that use two-step logon, aka multifactor authentication, report that they have experienced breaches. So it does not appear to be a case of users re-using passwords. For...
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