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ALERT! Reboot Your Router NOW! – ALERT!

June 1, 2018 | 0 Comments

The FBI has issued an urgent warning and request to everyone who owns a home router to reboot the device to thwart a Russian cyber attack. Cisco security researchers at the company’s cyber intelligence unit...

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Facebook’s surprising diversity report showed marked improvement in hiring of women and minorities. While the report shows that Facebook is still overwhelmingly white and male the improvements show that Maxine Williams, Facebook’s Executive Diversity Chief, is having...

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Kevin Walker was named as the Security Chief Technology Officer or CTO for Juniper Networks on November 12th. Walker comes to Juniper from Walmart where he served as vice president and assistant Chief Information Officer or CIO. Walker...

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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The African-American Cyber Report is dedicated to bringing the latest most relevant cyber security news and information to black people. Cyber security has become the single most urgent...

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Understanding Medical Data Breaches

September 15, 2015 | 0 Comments

Medical data breaches are constantly in the news.  According to iHealthBeat.org 1 in 10 U.S. residents have been impacted by a medical data breach. It is highly likely that millions of African-Americans have been the...

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Scammers are phishing for LinkedIn members log in credentials by sending emails that are supposed to be from LinkedIn Support. Symantec Senior Security Response Manager  Satnam Narang wrote about the phishing campaign observed over the past week....

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