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IronBox Secure File Transfer Announces Free Webinar: “Queen of Data Breach” Attorney Lisa Sotto Shares Her Top Tips in the Event of a Data Breach

REDMOND, WA–(Marketwired – April 17, 2014) – IronBox Secure File Transfer , a leading secure file transfer and data protection provider for healthcare, legal, accounting and financial professionals, is hosting a complimentary webinar with the “Queen of Data Breach,” Attorney Lisa Sotto

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How to Tell If You’re Vulnerable to Heartbleed

A major security bug was reported this week in OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library used by many Web sites around the world.  The bug was nick-named “heartbleed” and is estimated to impact about 2/3rds of all Web sites. Plenty of

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How do you know when something is secure? (Part 1)

I had a bunch of meetings this week, as I imagine we all did, but two of them really stood out that I think you could really benefit from hearing about: Meeting #1: A rather large company wanted to move

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What Advocate Medical Group and Lindsay Lohan (?) Wished They Had Known About Data Protection

This past October AHMC Healthcare Inc. reported that the protected health information for over 700k patients had been compromised following the theft of two stolen laptops.  A couple months later, Lindsay Lohan’s handlers reported that her laptop  was stolen at

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Top Signs You’ll Get Hacked (Fast) in 2014

Target reported in a disclosure last Friday that they picked up signs of suspicious activity, but decided not to take immediate action.  Here are sure fire signs that you’ll probably be hacked in 2014 and what you can do right

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Preventing Your Database From Getting Hacked: What to Ask Your Software Vendors Right Now If I Were You

If you’re worried about your data getting hacked in 2014, you should be. I read an article about the Navy’s database recently getting hacked because they did not receive proper updates from their software vendor which exposed them to SQL

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How to Tell If Your Cloud Vendor is Bull*#$!-ing You About Security: Can They Access My Data?

Moving data to the cloud can be scary, especially if the data is sensitive or regulated in any way. I am willing to bet the number one question concerned organizations (and their auditors) wonder is this: Are they (cloud vendors)

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How to Tell If Your Cloud Vendor is Bull*#$!-ing You About Security, Part 1: SSL

Last week Apple released an emergency security patch for iOS devices that addressed an implementation issue in their use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Basically the flaw allowed an attacker to masquerade as any secure site (such as Google, Amazon,

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How to Send Encrypted Email

Easily one of the most common questions we get is how to send encrypted email. In this article, I’ll show you a quick and easy way to encrypt data so you can send it using any email client (Microsoft Outlook,

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Protecting ePHI Data on Mobile Applications for HIPAA – Part 1 (for Non-Geeks)

In a few days we will be publicly releasing our IronBox Secure File Transfer mobile application for Apple iOS devices on the App Store for our customers. As with any software we produce here at IronBox, we focused specifically on

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