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Just a friendly reminder!

Don’t listen to scammers I know it can be difficult to see messages like the above and not immediately call. However, while we here at RMECS are also tech support you call, don't EVER call the numbers you get in a popup. They will claim anything under the sun to get your credit ca

A rather interesting read

Concerns about USB security are real: 48% of people do plug-in USB drives found in parking lots As an experiment we dropped nearly 300 USB sticks on the UIUC campus to assess if USB drop attacks work and see if concerns about USB security were justified. We found out that at least 48% of the drive were plugged. This blog post summarizes how we ran the study, highlights the key findings, looks…

Don’t use the exact same password everywhere! I know it seems tedious, but if the recent heartbleed bug taught us anything it is that if you use the same password everywhere, all it takes is one of the sites to get compromised and they are all compromised.

I do have a solution though, but how far you take it is up to you.

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