We have all received unsolicited phone calls. We also think we are pretty good at spotting scams. But what happens when you receive a phone call from someone or someplace you know? You pick up. You chat. Your guard goes down. This is why phone scams use a technique called “spoofing.” 
What is spoofing? Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity. Scammers often use ‘neighbor......
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Once upon a time in the early days of the internet you could log into your online accounts using your dog’s name as a password. Lucky, Fido, Spot, or Buddy were all easy to remember and quick to type. As time progressed websites and apps began requiring you to add a number, add a special character or ensure your password was a certain length. Why? Why are things getting more complicated? Because hackers are getting more sophisticated.
Think about the internet today....
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Mary Jo Casilio has been promoted to Supervisor of Professional Development, Leadership, and Mentoring. This was a role vacated by Jessie Karches earlier this fall when she was named an Associate Director.
Mary Jo has served as a staff development coordinator for Erie 1 BOCES, working closely with K-12 teachers and building leaders across WNY for the last 15 years. She leads professional development, mentors new teachers, and offers support relative to reading and writing...
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On Tuesday, October 18, high school students descended on the University at Buffalo campus for the first ever Careers in Education Conference. Students from throughout Western New York who expressed an interest in a career in education were invited to attend. Registration for the conference filled quickly, swelling the event to more than one hundred and fifty students representing eighteen school districts.
The conference opened with a keynote address from Alden High School...
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A good password should be difficult to guess, but easy to remember.
Utilizing things you dislike will help keep it hard to guess while making it easy to remember. Maybe you dislike eating poi (traditional Hawaiian staple), playing flinch (aka hand slap), or taking out the trash. Utilizing these three words together with lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and special characters make a very strong 14 character passphrase.
P0iFl!nchTr@sh is easy to remember and since you don't...
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