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Leaked employee passwords open up Fortune 500 companies to hackers
Leaked employee passwords It's one thing when your iCloud account with personal photos gets hacked. It's another when your Fortune 500 company has a data breach because your office credentials were leaked online. At 221 of the Fortune 500 companies, Fortune...
Healthcare finance tips for safeguarding against cyberattacks
Premera hack puts renewed focus on securing sensitive healthcare info. Premera hack puts renewed focus on securing sensitive healthcare info. As Tuesday's news about the Premera Blue Cross hack shows, healthcare organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks,...
Banking Sector Leads In Global Data Leakage - Infowatch Report
Global Data Leakage The banking and financial services industry is at high risk for data leakage with over 40 per cent of leaked personal data globally, according to the Infowatch Global Data Leakage Report 2014. Infowatch Group is the global leader in...
Is It Time to Review Your Data Monitoring Policy?
Is It Time to Review Your Data Monitoring Policy? The relationship between workers, their devices and company material can be hazardous if left unmonitored. Did your employer review their BYOD or employee monitoring policies with you during your onboarding...
Computer Email Monitoring
Computer Email Monitoring Do you want to regulate the use of email to send commercial messages in your corporation? Do you have a desire to restrict sender by only allowing employees to use specific mailbox to send emails and prohibiting using other mailbox?...
Wearable Workplace “Mood Monitors” Are About To Become A Thing
Wearable Workplace “Mood Monitors” Are About To Become A Thing In a move sure to do wonders for the emotional well-being of office workers around the world, tech giant Hitachi has developed a line of wearable mood monitors designed to track and tabulate...
5 IT Shortcuts That Put Your Company’s Data at Risk
5 IT Shortcuts That Put Your Company’s Data at Risk IT departments looking to save time and money shouldn't be doing so at the expense of their data protection. A study from the University of Texas revealed that 43% of companies suffering from catastrophic...
Meerkat CEO: 20% of its users watch 2 hours of video daily
Meerkat CEO: 20% of its users watch 2 hours of video daily AUSTIN, Texas — Barely 16 days after launch, Meerkat is on a roll, CEO Ben Rubin says. The 27-year-old former architecture student from Israel took the stage Sunday afternoon at South by Southwest...
Big bill revealed for Saanich spying software
Saanich The installation and use of employee monitoring software at Saanich municipal hall could cost the municipality at least $30,000 in 2015, thanks to licensing and maintenance agreements that were confirmed before B.C.’s privacy commissioner launched...
Some Thoughts on Employee Appreciation Day, including a Potential Wage and Hour Pitfall
Employee Appreciation Day “And you’re wondering . . . am I appreciated . . . I’m not really appreciated, should I play like I’m appreciated, but I’m not that appreciated . . .but I think my employer might appreciate me . . . but do I want to be appreciated...
10 Personal Things Employees Do at Work
Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't the first employer in history to berate an employee for conducting personal business on company time. And he probably won't be the last. But personal tasks that may have once been considered taboo are now acceptable practices at...
ICYMI: Privacy in the Workplace Webinar
Privacy in the Workplace Webinar Our 2015 monthly Privacy Issues Wednesday webinar series continued this month with Jennifer Rubin and Gauri Punjabi’s Privacy in the Workplace presentation. Jen and Gauri discussed the latest statutory and common law developments...
Glaxosmithkline China dismisses more than 100 over bribery scandal that cost company £300m
GSK has indicated that employee monitoring has been stepped up in the wake of the scandal (Source: Getty) GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has booted more than 100 staff in China on the back of its investigations into the corruption scandal that ended with it being...
Google offers security tips for staying safe online
Google offers security tips for staying safe online Be it the ubiquity of hacking or widespread government surveillance, better online security is something that we could all use more of these days. Google is pushing to educate users on how to stay safe...
Report: Netflix and YouTube Account for Half of Internet's Traffic
Traffic Source Netflix and YouTube dominate over half of downstream Internet traffic in North America, according to a new report released by Canadian Internet monitoring firm Sandvine. Downstream traffic is data that goes from a source to a computer,...
5 super easy tips for better online security on Safer Internet Day
Internet Security It's Safer Internet Day! Every February 10, the occasion is meant to be a reminder — particularly to young people — of the perils of the Internet. he hope is to encourage more responsibility when we use the Internet and mobile technology....