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Google Searches Now Have A Check In Front Of Search Topic

Some of you may have noticed a subtle but important change with the results of a Google search. There may be a green circle with a white check mark before some of the search results.

According to Google’s website; “Google’s Safe Browsing technology examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites.

Verifone announces Breach! Ouch!

One of the world’s largest credit and debit card processors is in the middle of assessing the scope of a newly announced breach. Verifone supplies millions of point of sale devices and transmits large amounts of payment card data ever second. At this point it is unclear to what degree data was lost although they are sure their internal network was compromised.

Could the Cloudflare breach be the biggest ever?

February 19th, 2017, Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google’s Project Zero (an elite team tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities), came across sensitive data leakage from websites using Cloudflare services. Cloudflare is a huge, multi-billion-dollar company that provides a variety of web hosting services to over 5 million sites for such companies as Fitbit, Yelp, Uber, OKCupid, Zendesk, 23 and Me and many more.

Employee Happiness from a “Best Places to Work Winner”

All businesses struggle with keeping good team members on board. If your staff is happy, that attitude flows through to your clients and builds the culture of how your company is viewed in your industry. For example, have you ever flown a Southwest flight, witnessed the flight attendant going over the safety regulations in the most creative way possible, and been convinced that they just love what they do? This is a culture that is nurtured throughout the organization and the public just can’t help but notice.

F1 can advise BEFORE you purchase, and help to ensure that you buy what you need!

Information Technology moves quickly and so do changes in hardware and software. Server requirements, software requirements, user requirements, operating system compatibility, can be overwhelming and change quickly. Over the last few weeks we have come across some instances when a client would order a bundle of laptops or tablets only to find out that what they have ordered will not work for their application.

IT Management and Lifecycle Planning

All business owners understand the importance of budgets and utilizing them as a roadmap to decide when and how to allocate resources. We know that if we want new clients we need to reflect that in our marketing budget. If we want to implement a new product or service, we have to budget appropriately.

Urgent Phishing Alert: Beware of AdultFriendFinder Scams

A massive data breach of the adult dating and entertainment company Friend Finder Network has exposed more than 412 million accounts, including (and this is really bad) over 15 million "deleted" records that were not purged from the databases.

The exfiltrated records included 339 million accounts from AdultFriendFinder.

DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit

From : https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/

Criminals this morning massively attacked Dyn, a company that provides core Internet services for Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Reddit and a host of other sites, causing outages and slowness for many of Dyn’s customers.

The Yahoo Hack and How It Affects You

The newly released information about the Yahoo breach has been all over the news over the last few days. According to Reuters, “Yahoo Inc said on Thursday (9/22/2016) information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by what it believed was a "state-sponsored actor.

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