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Cyberfraud is growing; threats to businesses have multiplied in number and sophistication. The front line has moved from desktop to pocket and purse through smartphones and tablets. Even hiring applications have become a new route for infection.
But by adopting three cybersafety tactics and encouraging your employees to follow suit, you can better protect your business and your family.
Get serious about passwords: Strong password management is the best defense, but “users have prioritized convenience over security when establishing passwords” the FBI said in a recent warning. It cites the five most common passwords as password, 123456, 12345678, qwerty and abc123. Simple passwords
are like leaving the key...

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Major General Suzanne M. "Zan" Vautrinot is the commander, 24th Air Force, and commander, Air Force Network Operations, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She is responsible for the Air Force's component-numbered air force providing combatant commanders with trained and ready cyber forces that plan and conduct cyberspace operations. 24th Air Force personnel extend, maintain and defend the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense global network. The general directs the activities of three operation cyber wings, two headquartered at Lackland AFB, and one at Robins AFB, Ga., as well as the 624th Operations Center at Lackland.

Vautrinot entered the Air Force after graduating from the...

A Chinese computer technology company expanded its U.S. presence to San Antonio on Wednesday, starting with a two-person office but with a goal to grow to perhaps 200 employees in two years.
The firm, hiSoft Technology International Ltd., chose San Antonio for its sixth U.S. office and its 20th in four countries, partly because it already is partners in China with San Antonio-based Rackspace Hosting on a medical-industry cloud computing project.
“Our vision does not limit us to Rackspace (in San Antonio),” said Tiakkoon Loh, hiSoft CEO, who traveled to San Antonio for Wednesday's event. Loh is based in Beijing, but hiSoft's headquarters is in Dalian, China.
The company, founded in 1996, employs about 7,...

A new McAfee cybersecurity survey concluded that Israel, Finland, and Sweden are leading other countries in “cyber-readiness.” The report says that China, Brazil, and Mexico are among the least cyber-prepared to defend these countries’ networks against cyber attacks.

The ranking was on a continuum from one star (unprepared for cyberattacks) to five stars. No county received either five stars or one star. Israel, Finland, and Sweden received four-and-a-half stars each.

The BBC reports that the United Kingdom, with a grading of four out of five stars, ranks favorably in the survey, along with the United States, Germany, Spain, and France.

The survey was conducted by the Security and Defense Agenda...

Its first time competing in the tournament, the McArthur High School Army JROTC team Samuel Burgess, Robert Isenhour, Bob Blake (coach), Lois Agabon, Corey King (mentor), Adam Cruz, Andy Banda, Peter Myers has made it to the Cyber Patriot finals in March. The group is the only service division team in Texas to make the finals.

When it comes to the CyberPatriot competition, security is the name of the game. And this year, two groups of San Antonio teens are the best at it in Texas.

The MacArthur High School Army JROTC team and the Information Technology and Security Academy San Antonio teams will be representing the Lone Star State at the fourth annual CyberPatriot, a high school competition focused on...

The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself. And let me tell you, you're probably not doing enough to keep number one safe. The reason: Your special lump of letters, numbers, and symbols are likely spread over too many sites, are not long enough, and are probably too personal. Most of our passwords suck. And it's kind of a big problem.

The thing to understand is that the biggest threat to your security isn't some creep sitting in front of your email login screen, randomly brute forcing his way into your account. Nope, you're up against computers that can run thousands of encrypted passwords by dictionaries of several languages, everything in the World Fact Book, and Wikipedia in a matter...

The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and InnoTech San Antonio, the region’s largest business to business technology event, will once again team up to host the annual Beta Summit. This year’s Beta Summit will take place on April 5th at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center.

The Beta Summit is a showcase of San Antonio’s growing technology community, highlightingstartups through a series of six minute live demonstrations of new products and/or technologies.

“This event allows other businesses to get a sneak peek into the future of the San Antonio tech industry,” said Sean Lowery, the organizer of the annual tech-based event. Participating companies may include security, social media, mobile, medical...

According to the FBI and the Department of Justice, cyber-crime is on the rise among American businesses, and it is costing them dearly. Cyber-crime includes a myriad of devious criminal practices designed to breach a company's computer security.

The purpose of the electronic break and enter can be to steal the financial information of the business or its customers, to deny service to the company website or to install a virus that monitors a company's online activity in the future.

All businesses that operate online have to deal with cyber-crime one way or another. The National Computer Security Survey (NCSS) in 2005 found that 67% of surveyed businesses had discovered at least one form of cyber-crime....