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How to Create a Secure Password

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There’s a number of great password manager solutions available nowadays, making it less painful to memorize every single symbol combination for a zillion websites that you’re registered on. However, it’s still common to neglect two of the most important rules of Internet security: ‘don’t be too obvious’ and ‘don’t reuse the same password’.

With a pair of notable remote support tools being hit by cyber-attacks in the recent days, we wanted to take a moment and share some of the best practices on how to improve the strength of your passwords and reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your account.  [Read more…] about How to Create a Secure Password

How to Prevent Data Breaches

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Whether you’re planning to open a new division in the Bay Area or are worried about what will happen when you double your employee roster this year, you must keep your organization’s sensitive data safe. According to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM, the average cost for each record containing confidential information increased from $201 to $217 in 2015. The total average cost paid by organizations as a result of data breaches increased from $5.9 million to $6.5 million year-by-year, and the numbers are likely to increase over the long term.  [Read more…] about How to Prevent Data Breaches

Top Five Remote Desktop Industry Trends of 2015

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2016 is just around the corner and now is that traditional moment we always seize to predict what’s next, as well as to sum up what we’ve seen this year. Fortunately, the remote desktop industry hasn’t experienced any fundamental disturbances in 2015. However, there are five key industry trends that we at Techinline would like to highlight in this post and share with our users.  [Read more…] about Top Five Remote Desktop Industry Trends of 2015

Fight on “Microsoft Support” Scams

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Some time ago we described how to spot tech support scam – a typical computer access fraud that the IT community is talking about more and more these days. Sadly, scamming affects both users’ private data and vendors’ reputation, as most fraudsters tend to present themselves as well-known software providers. We’ve been following all the ongoing discussions about this issue and recently finally got a call from one of our customers that helped us start an in-depth investigation to find and penalize the criminals.

We’d like to share this story and hope that our customers and other businesses might find it helpful in fighting back against “Tech Support” scams.  [Read more…] about Fight on “Microsoft Support” Scams

Moving Beyond Passwords as a Means of Security

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Passwords Becoming Passé

Psst! If you’ve been using “123456” or “password” as your security passwords on your computer or for your IT software, you may want to rethink your strategy.

According to a data breach security report from Verizon, about two-thirds of all breaches in 2014 were due to weak or stolen passwords. In fact, password management is one of the biggest threats to online security. In response, many companies have been exploring solutions that could take passwords entirely out of the picture. Sounds impossible? Welcome to the future of security. Here are just a few of the solutions being considered:

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Protecting Your Computer Against Malicious Browser Extensions

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Avoiding Unsafe Browser Add-Ons: Advice from a Remote Access Software Company

Your browser may be harboring identity thieves, malware, and fraud. Users who fail to carefully evaluate permissions may unknowingly open the door to this kind of abuse regardless of whether they use remote desktop technology or not. Unfortunately, users often are in the dark regarding these computer plots until substantial damage has been done.

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