Business Data Breach

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Data breaches are common. 55% percent of small businesses responded to a recent survey saying they experienced one in their business. A July 26, 2017 hearing before the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee stated that cyber threats have become a critical concern for the country's 28 million small businesses. In fact, the Justice Department recorded nearly 300,000 cybersecurity complaints in 2016 alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZlgrtqNPI You may be thinking this couldn't affect you, but imagine Mandy Hines. She owns a bakery in town called Crossroads that she built from the ground up after working as a barista for many years, and in a few months, she'll be opening a second location. Mandy has multiple computers and tablet point of sale or POS systems set up in her store, but she's…
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The government doesn’t create jobs

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Just about every policy decision made in the White House and voted on in Congress has an effect on job creation. When we speak about regulations, taxes foreign policy, a balanced budget and even energy - job creation is all part of the sum at the end of the equation. Through the course of many years, the Democratic Party and now President Obama’s economic initiatives have created a growing federal bureaucracy that now manages individual business through burdensome regulations that hamper investment and confidence in hiring which have resulted in abysmal job creation numbers. High taxation for corporations here at home encourages job growth overseas and reduces the manufacturing capacity here in the United States. Reduced opportunities for Americans in every other sector such as housing, retail and the service…
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Why Your PC is Not Suitable for Bitcoin Mining

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Cryptocurrency mining took the world by storm when Bitcoin first arrived on the scene 10 years ago, and in the beginning, your home PC or gaming rig was more than up to the task of mining for Bitcoin. This is because the initial phases of the Blockchain didn’t require too much difficulty to solve, making for easy mining of the relatively cheap crypto currency, at the time. But gradually, as Bitcoin became more valuable, many new players arrived in the crypto mining arena, and the problems that needed to be solved in order to unlock Bitcoin got more difficult with every difficulty update. Normal home PCs were simply no longer up to the task, and specialized gaming hardware became the target of many a Bitcoin miner’s attention. Companies that specialize…
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