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Are You Personally Secure Online? Take This Quiz to See!

Recently, Professor Joel Evans of the Hofstra Zarb School of Business made a presentation on “How to Be Even Smarter Online, Especially with Social Media.” As part of this presentation, a 21-item true-false quiz on online/social privacy was conducted. Through … Continue reading

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Retailers Becoming More Aggressive in Reducing Security Breeches

As we all know, data theft and security breeches are a huge problem for both large and small retailers (click here, for example). After the spate of recent incidents, retailers and credit card companies in the United States seem ready now … Continue reading

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Starting a New Job? Here Are Some Dos and Dont’s

Congratulations and the best of luck to all of you who are about to embark on a new job. Now, it is important to do everything you can to excel at that job. Have you thought about this enough? Getting … Continue reading

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