2018

Darkweb scans offered by companies should be taken with a grain of salt

cyber security|darkweb|data breach /

While we aren’t going to name names there’s a large credit company whose name rhymes with “Texperian” that offers free dark web scans. They are extremely misleading and also exploiting peoples’ fears of something that isn’t normally understood outside of privacy enthusiasts, the hacker community, and the curious explorer. So in this post we will […]

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Parents, it’s almost back to school time for your kids. Protect them on social media!

cyber security|privacy|social media /

Parents, it’s almost that time of year again! Back to school time for the kids! For some this may be your child’s first year in school ever. For others, you and your kids may be pros at the perfect back to school picture. In a previous post we discussed the issues of sharing things about

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My Dear Beneficiary Very Important Information Regarding Spam

cyber security|phishing|scams|spam /

Recently a client asked why they were getting spam in their email and there are many plausible scenarios for why people, in general, receive these types of messages. This article is only going to focus on a couple of these reasons. Data breaches/scraped email addresses Data breaches, or by scraping web content, are a couple

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My Dear Beneficiary Very Important Information Regarding Spam

cyber security|phishing|scams|spam /

Recently a client asked why they were getting spam in their email and there are many plausible scenarios for why people, in general, receive these types of messages. This article is only going to focus on a couple of these reasons. Data breaches/scraped email addresses Data breaches, or by scraping web content, are a couple

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Root Cause: The Case Against Suppression and De-indexing.

reputation|reputation management|suppression /

To put it on record, bsquared intel does not do suppression of negative/questionable information/data about you. Nor can we get search engines to de-index results. We can only help you control what you have direct access too and to search for where things managed to get out into the wild. If things do escape your

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