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As digital natives become more immersed in and dependent upon technology, they are likely to experience “cyber fatigue,” which can be thought of cybersecurity complacency. Paired with the invincible feeling that often accompanies being young, this can be a dangerous combination. It’s easy to mistakenly believe that hacked devices and identity theft are things that only happen to adults. Kids and teenagers, however, are just as high-risk and the impacts of cybersecurity breaches could potentially affect them for years into their future. So how can we protect our kids’ digital lives in the same way we protect their offline lives?
The internet may seem like a playground of endless entertainment, but we need to educate our children about the dangers that exist there as well. Have you had a friend or family member who’s been hacked or somehow had important information compromised? Talk to your kids about it, how it happened, why it happened, and the work needed to fix it. These real-life examples may be one of your most powerful education tools, as they help children more concretely understand the concept of cybersecurity threats. Demonstrating that these things can happen to anyone, including them, is the quickest way to get their cybersecurity guard up. Looking for fresh ideas on how to talk to your kids about cybersecurity? Check out the Webroot Community for advice and tips.
Teach your children about the most common cybersecurity threats, especially ones that are particularly pervasive on social media, including phishing, identity theft, and malicious websites. They should never accept private messages from people they don’t know, or click on links from friends or family that seem out of character or suspect. If they aren’t sure a message from a friend is actually from that individual, they should not hesitate to verify their identity by calling them, or by asking specific questions only that individual would know. The comments sections of websites like YouTube are also potential flashpoints. Clever comments can entice users into clicking on a risky link that navigates them to a malicious site.
The temptation to download an illegal copy of a favorite movie, game, or album can be strong, but ethical and legal implications aside, it remains one of the most risky online behaviors. In fact, a recent study found that there was a 20% increase in malware infection rates associated with visits to infringing sites. Make sure your kids know the impact illegal downloads have on their security, and inform them of alternative streaming and download options. If you’re able, give your child an allowance for services like Steam for video games, or Amazon Video for films and shows. Providing them with alternative options is the best way to keep your child from giving into the temptation of illegally torrenting content.
A recent study found that people aged 15 to 24 spend about four hours a day on their phones. This works out to roughly 1,456 hours of mobile engagement a year, making mobile devices one of the most vulnerable entry points for cybersecurity breaches. Make sure your child’s phone is protected with a pin number, password, or biometrics on the lock screen, and that they know to leave Bluetooth turned off when not in use. Connecting to public WiFi networks could also leave your child vulnerable, but you can protect their devices from open networks by securing them with a VPN.
Many young people today use anonymous or “private” messaging services, like Whisper, Sarahah, or Snapchat, believing that they are protected by the apparent anonymity. However, cybersecurity experts have long been critical of these services, as nothing online is 100% anonymous.
Free applications have to make a profit somewhere, which often means that they are storing, tracking and selling user data. This is particularly dangerous as users are lulled into a false sense of security, which can quickly be shattered when these services are affected by a cybersecurity breach. Make sure your kids know nothing they say online is truly private, and that a negative digital footprint can drastically alter the course of their lives.
We believe cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and that it is not just up to parents to educate digital natives. This is why we’ve developed a cybersecurity awareness initiative with the Aurora Public School System in Colorado. In addition to providing students with online safety tips, we’ve given them insights on potential career paths, and connected them with our engineers to solve problems using skills like math and coding that could benefit them later in their careers.
We encourage parents to explore and advocate for cybersecurity and STEM education opportunities for children in their local communities. For more educational content to help keep your family safe from cyber threats, visit the Home + Mobile section of our blog.
Earlier this week, a security researcher found payment card-stealing scripts running on the Infowars online site. The scripts managed to stay active for nearly 24 hours. At least 1,600 users of the site may have been affected during this period, though many were returning customers who wouldn’t have had to re-enter their payment information into the compromised forms. As of writing, the malicious scripts being used by Magecart are active on nearly 100 other online stores, with almost 20% getting re-infected within a two-week period.
A lawsuit recently revealed that savvy scammers successfully took nearly €19 million through a series of unauthorized transfers from a spoofed personal email address of the company’s CEO. After requesting additional information from the scammers, who continued to provide highly-detailed documents suggesting their legitimacy, several payments were transferred from the company’s main cash pool with promises of a quick payback from the scammers.
The headmaster of a Chinese school was fired after staff discovered an excessively high power bill previously written off as a faulty HVAC system was actually caused by several cryptomining rigs running off the school’s electricity. The headmaster brought the mining machines into the school in mid-2017 and evaded blame for the excess power consumption until the physical proof was discovered. While it appears no other harm was done, cryptomining software can be dangerous, as you can never be sure nothing else is bundled with it.
Researchers have been monitoring a relatively new botnet that is currently controlling over 100,000 devices, including 116 device types from multiple manufacturers. By taking advantage of well-known bugs within Universal Plug n Play, hackers can quickly take control of the device and begin monitoring traffic from outside of the network.
After originally claiming a data breach had taken place last month, affecting 9.4 million customers, new findings have shown the attacks have been happening regularly since March. Even though local laws didn’t require the company to notify authorities regarding a data breach, it is still surprising that it has taken almost nine months to determine what data had been exposed and what hadn’t.
It’s no secret that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are marked by an uptick in online shopping. Cyber Monday 2017 marked the single largest day of online sales to date, with reported sales figures upwards of $6.5 billion. Data from Webroot charted a 58 percent increase in traffic to shopping sites on that day. And while Black Friday originated as a day to tussle with your neighbors for deals in person, online retailers like Amazon and eBay wouldn’t be left out and have begun offering their own deals.
What’s less often discussed is the corresponding rise in cybercrime that accompanies these online retail holidays. Webroot noted a surge in phishing and fraud sites of 203 percent between November 19 and December 5, with the number of such sites peaking on Cyber Monday. Instances of spyware and adware also rose 57 percent during the busy holiday shopping period, again peaking on Cyber Monday.
For business owners and those in IT, Cyber Monday likely means lost productivity as employees bargain hunt at work rather than actually work. (It’s interesting to note that, according to CNET, the first Cyber Monday in 2005 was intentionally made to fall on a weekday so workers could browse shopping sites on faster computers.) As our data shows, more than just a few hours of lost productivity are at stake.
Employees expose business owners to greater risks of phishing scams, ransomware, and other types of attack that could significantly lengthen downtimes for all employees, or even shutter a business completely. According to a Better Business Bureau study on cybercrime, more than half of businesses would cease to be profitable within a month if a ransomware attack were to lock them out of essential data.
What’s a Business Owner to Do about Cyber Monday?
Whether you’re a business owner or provide IT services, you’re likely to see employees or clients indulging in deals this Cyber Monday. But there are strategies for limiting your risk on November 26. As with much of cybersecurity, you can manage your policy for online shopping based on what you consider acceptable levels of risk.
With network-level protection it’s possible to block access to any sites categorized as “shopping,” while still whitelisting trusted domains. Our research shows Amazon, the Apple iTunes Store, and Walmart rounded out the top three most visited shopping sites last Cyber Monday, so employers may want to consider whitelisting those sites specifically, while still blocking less reputable ones. Webroot offers DNS protection with the ability to filter according to more than 80 categories, including gambling, adult content, and weapons, as well as shopping. Set a policy to block the shopping category this Cyber Monday, with your own tailored exceptions and presto, problem solved.
There are also other, less prohibitive strategies for protecting employees and clients, too. Tools like Webroot’s Web Classification and Reputation services forecast the risks of visiting more than 27 billion URLs, which can help user determine if that deal really is a little too good to be true. IP Reputation Services make a similar determination based on an IP’s risk score.
Real-Time phishing protection and hands-on phishing simulations can go a long way toward improving security, too. The surge in these types of attacks represents cybercriminals focus on the weakest element of a company’s IT security: the end users themselves. Catching phishing attacks before they’re clicked and teaching users to be vigilant about threats by using custom phishing templates are paramount to your business’s security posture.
So there are a variety of methods for limiting disruption from online shopping in the workplace, so business owners and managed service providers shouldn’t let Cyber Monday come and go without preparation. Employees will almost certainly be on an online hunt for deals and cybercriminals know it.
Focus on security now, before a user’s big savings end up costing you.
HSBC has been monitoring some unauthorized access occurring over a ten-day period on their customer’s online accounts. During this time, attackers used credentials that were likely part of prior breaches to access numerous accounts. HSBC worked quickly to disable online access to any accounts that showed suspicious activity. The bank also began notifying potential victims of the incident and have taken additional steps in securing their online access points.
With the rollout of Google’s Chrome 71, the company is looking to enhance the user experience by blocking all advertisements on sites that have continued to allow the hosting of offensive material. Chrome 71 will also be more efficient at blocking phishing attacks and misleading pop-up notifications that may redirect users. Fortunately, sites that are flagged can check their status and are given 30 days to correct for offending content.
A Canadian University was forced to shut down its entire network after IT staff discovered a cryptocurrency miner operating illicitly on several university systems. While they are still unsure who installed the cryptominer, they have removed the software from the systems and brought the remainder of the networks back online. Along with slowly restoring the remaining services taken offline, the university also forced a password change for all current users.
Several arrests in Ohio have recently revealed a new scam that leverages SMS phishing attacks to withdraw money from ATMs that don’t require the use of a bank card. By sending a victim’s smartphone an SMS message containing a link to “unlock” their accounts, they are redirected to a phony site that steals their credentials. The scam has netted the attackers nearly $68,000 over a two-week period.
Even as Twitter-based Bitcoin scams have slowed, a new Elon Musk spoof account has popped up with the usual offer to multiply any amount of Bitcoins received and return the inflated amount. This scammer may have the benefit of taking over a verified account, but modifications to the profile name and obvious spelling errors reveal its clearly not legitimate, though it does leave raise questions regarding the verification system’s security.
Threat researchers and other cybersecurity industry analysts spend much of their time trying to anticipate the next major malware strain or exploit with the potential to cause millions of dollars in damage, disrupt global commerce, or put individuals at physical risk by targeting critical infrastructure.
However, a new Webroot survey of principals at 500 small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), suggests that phishing attacks and other forms of social engineering actually represent the most real and immediate threat to the health of their business.
Twenty-four percent of SMBs consider phishing scams as their most significant threat, the highest for any single method of attack, and ahead of ransomware at 19 percent.
Statistics released by the FBI this past summer in its 2017 Internet Crime Report reinforce the scope of the problem. Costing nearly $30 million in total losses last year, phishing and other social engineering attacks were the third leading crime by volume of complaints, behind only personal data breaches and non-payment/non-delivery of services. Verizon Wireless’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, a thorough and well-researched annual study we cite often, blames 93 percent of successful breaches on phishing and pretexting, another social engineering tactic.
So how are businesses responding? In short, not well.
24 percent of principals see phishing scams as the number one threat facing their business. Only 35 percent are doing something about it with cybersecurity awareness training.
One of the more insidious aspects of phishing as a method of attack is that even some otherwise strong email security gateways, network firewalls and endpoint security solutions are often unable to stop it. The tallest walls in the world won’t protect you when your users give away the keys to the castle. And that’s exactly what happens in a successful phishing scam.
Despite this, our survey found that 65 percent of SMBs reported having no employee training on cybersecurity best practices. So far in 2018, World Cup phishing scams, compromised MailChimp accounts, and opportunist GDPR hoaxers have all experienced some success, among many others.
So, can training change user behavior to stop handing over the keys to the castle? Yes! Cybersecurity awareness training, when it includes features like realistic phishing simulations and engaging, topical content, can elevate the security IQ of users, reducing user error and improving the organization’s security posture along the way.
The research and advisory firm Gartner maintains that applied examples of cybersecurity awareness training easily justify its costs. According to their data, untrained users click on 90 percent of the links within emails received from outside email addresses, causing 10,000 malware infections within a single year. By their calculations, these infections led to an overall loss of productivity of 15,000 hours per year. Assuming an average wage of $85/hr, lost productive costs reach $1,275,000 which does not necessarily account for other potential costs such as reputational damage, remediation cost, or fines associated with breaches.
And it’s not just phishing attacks users must be trained to identify. Only 20 percent of the SMBs in our survey enforced strong password management. Ransomware also remains a significant threat, and there are technological aspects to regulatory compliance that users are rarely fully trained on. Even the most basic educational courses on these threats would go a long way toward bolstering a user’s security IQ and the organizations cybersecurity posture.
Finding after finding suggests that training on cybersecurity best practices produces results. When implemented as part of a layered cybersecurity strategy, cybersecurity awareness training improves SMB security by reducing the risks of end-user hacking and creating a workforce of cyber-savvy end users with the tools they need to defend themselves from threats.
All that remains to be seen is whether a business will act in time to protect against their next phishing attack and prevent a potentially catastrophic breach.
You can access the findings of our SMB Pulse Survey here.
You’re probably familiar with some of the most common requirements for creating passwords. A mix of upper and lowercase letters is a simple example. These are known as password constraints. They’re rules for how you must construct a password. If your password must be at least eight characters long, contain lower case, uppercase, numbers and symbol characters, then you have one length, and four character set constraints.
Password constraints eliminate a number of both good and bad passwords. I had never heard anyone ask “how many potential passwords, good and bad, are eliminated?” And so I began searching for the answer. The results were surprising. If you want to know the precise number of possible 8-character passwords there are if all of the character sets must be used, then the equation looks something like this.
We choose to use a Monte Carlo simulation to analyze the mathematical impact of the various combinations of constraints. A Monte Carlo simulation uses a statistical analysis approach that provides a close approximation of the answer, while also providing the flexibility to quickly and easily measure the impact of each constraint and combination of constraints.
To start, let’s look at the impact of an eight-character length constraint alone. There are 95^8 possible combinations of 8 characters. 26 uppercase letters + 26 lowercase letters + 10 numerals + 33 symbols = 95 characters. For a length of 8 characters, we have 95˄8 possible passwords.
If a password must be at least 8 characters long, then there are also about 70.6 trillion otherwise viable passwords you are not allowed to use (95+(95^2 ) +(95^3 ) +(95^4 ) +(95^5)+(95^6 )+(95^7)). That’s a good thing. It means you can’t use 95 one character passwords, 9,025 two character passwords, and so on. Almost 70 trillion of those passwords you cannot use are seven characters long. This is a great and wholly intended effect of a password length constraint.
The problem with a lack of constraints is that people will use a very small set of all possible passwords, which invariably includes passwords that are incredibly easy to guess. In the analysis of over one million leaked passwords, it was found that 30.8 percent passwords eight to 11 characters long contained only lowercase letters, and 43.9 percent contained only lowercase letters and numbers. In fact, to perform a primitive brute force attack against an eight-character password containing only lower case letters, it’s only necessary to try about 209 billion character combinations. That does not take a computer very long to crack. And, as we know from analyzing large numbers of passwords, it’s likely to contain one of the most popular ten thousand passwords.
To beef up security, we begin to add character constraints. But, in doing so, we decrease the number of possible passwords; both good and bad.
Just by requiring both uppercase and lowercase letters, more than 15 percent of all possible 8-character combinations have been eliminated as possible passwords. This means that 1QV5#T&|cannot be a password because there are no lowercase letters. Compared to Darnrats,which meets the constraint requirements, 1QV5#T&|is a fantastic password. But you cannot use it. Superior passwords that cannot be used are acceptable collateral damage in the battle for better security. “Corndogs” is acceptable, but “fruit&veggies” is not. This clearly is not a battle for lower cholesterol.
If a password must be exactly eight characters long and contain at least one lower case letter, at least one uppercase letter and at least one symbol, we are getting close to one-in-five combinations of 8 characters that are not allowable as passwords. Still, the effect of constraints on 12 and 16 character passwords is negligible. But that is all about to change… you can count on it.
Are you required to use a password that is at least eight characters long, has lower and uppercase letters, number and symbols? Just requiring a number to be part of a password removes over 40 percent of 8-character combinations from the pool of possible passwords. Even though you can use lowercase and uppercase letters, and you can use symbols, if one of the characters in your password must be a number then there are far fewer great passwords that you can use. If a 16 character long password must have a number, then 13 times more potential passwords have become illegal as a result of that one constraint than the combined constraints of lower and uppercase letters and symbols caused. More than one-in-four combinations of 12 characters can no longer become a passwords either.
People tend to be very predictable. There are more symbols (than there are in any other characters set. Theoretically that means that symbols are going to do the most to make a password strong, but 80 percent of the time it is going to be one of the top five most frequently used symbols, and 95 percent of the time is will be one of the top 10 most frequently used symbols.
Analysis of two million compromised passwords showed that about one in 14 passwords start with the number one, however for those that started with the number one, 75 percent of them ended with a number as well.
The use of birthdays and names, for example, make it much easier to quickly crack many passwords.
As covered above, all four character sets (95 characters) in an eight character password allow for about 6.634 quadrillion different password possibilities. But a 16 character password with only lowercase letters has about 43.8 sextillion possible passwords. That means that there are well over 6.5 million times more possible passwords for 16 consecutive lowercase letters than for any combination of eight characters regardless of how complex the password is.
My great password is “cats and hippos are friends!”, but I can’t use it because of constraints – and because I just told you what it is.
For years password experts have been advocating for the use of simple passphrases over complex passwords because they are stronger and simpler to remember. I’d like to throw a bit of gasoline on to the fire and tell you, those 95^8 combinations of characters are only half that many when you tell me I have to use uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols.
DemonBot, while not the most sophisticated botnet discovered to date, has seen a significant rise in usage over the last week. With the ability to take control of Hadoop cloud frameworks, DemonBot has been using the platform to carry out DDoS attacks across the globe. By exploiting Hadoop’s resource management functionality, the infection can quickly spread itself and allows for remote code execution on affected servers.
Bank Islami, one of the largest banks in Pakistan, announced that an unusual attack had occurred involving local cards used far outside of the country’s borders. While the bank was quick to return the funds removed from customer’s accounts, the remainder of the malicious transactions processed internationally have the bank being on the hook for nearly $6 million in phony withdrawals, mainly in the US and Brazil. Unfortunately, due to a lack of information regarding the malicious transactions, several other top banks in the country were forced to temporarily restrict international purchases to protect their own clients.
Researchers recently discovered the credentials for over 600,000 individuals, all closely tied to construction or building firms, available for sale on the dark web. Presently it appears that the credentials were all compromised during breaches involving third-parties users would have given corporate email into, rather than specific breaches for the industry group. Fortunately, it appears there haven’t been any related breaches thus far, though this type of data could lead to additional sensitive information being stolen.
A new ransomware variant has been making an unusual request from its victims: allowing remote desktop access in order to decrypt their files. Dubbed CommonRansom, due to the appended extension on the encrypted files, the variant also demands a 0.1 Bitcoin payment before making the request for administrator credentials to the victim’s computer. Even though this variant isn’t widespread, it does appear to be using a similar Bitcoin wallet as other infections, as 65 Bitcoins were recently sent from the designated wallet.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week they had discovered malicious activity within their direct enrollment pathway, which connects patients and healthcare brokers. At least 75,000 individuals were affected. The pathway has since been disabled to prevent further exposure. Until the pathway is fixed, hopefully within a week, CMS is contacting affected patients and offering them credit protection services.
City officials in West Haven, Connecticut finally gave in to ransom demands following a cyberattack against their systems. The attack began early Tuesday morning and disabled 23 individual servers before a decision was made to pay a ransom in hopes for the return of their data. While it is still unclear if the systems were fully restored, the town was lucky to receive a relatively small ransom request ($2,000 given the significant amount of data stolen.
A string of eight adult sites, all owned by the same individual, fell victim to hackers who took advantage of poor security to expose records for up to 1.2 million individuals. While not as large as similar adult-related breaches, it still presents questions as to why proper security measures aren’t put in place on these sites proactively. The owner of the sites has since taken them down and replaced them with messages warning users to update their passwords and take extra security precautions.
A new browser-based tech support scam has been spotted recently that warns users their McAfee subscription has run out and needs to be renewed. Rather than redirect victims through an affiliate link to the real McAfee site, though, this latest scam directly prompts the user to input payment card information and other personal data into a small pop-up window. To top it off, once payment info is entered, an additional pop-up appears that suggests contacting support to help install your new software and eventually falsely claiming payment wasn’t successful and users must re-purchase the software.
The city of Muscatine, Iowa is working to determine how several of their main computer systems, both within city hall and its library, were infiltrated by ransomware that’s knocked them offline. Officials have announced that no information was stolen and the city does not maintain any payment records, so citizens shouldn’t be worried. The city’s emergency services were also unaffected and continue to operate as normal.
By now, you likely know that a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is essential to remaining safe when working remotely. But, once set up, how can you optimize your VPN to work well with your devices and meet your security needs? Here are our top five tips for maximizing your VPN experience.
One of the biggest misconceptions about VPNs is that they protect your device from malicious programs. While a VPN will encrypt your network traffic, preventing others from viewing intercepted data, most do not warn you when you visit dangerous sites. If your VPN provides advanced web filtering for risky sites, that can be an additional defense against cyber threats such as malware and phishing. Alternatively, while strong antivirus software actively monitors for viruses and malware within files and applications, it does not encrypt your data or prevent it from being monitored. Both are equally important for protecting your devices, and are ideally used together. Combining the two services provides additional security.
Setting up a VPN to keep your data safe is an important first step, but what happens if your VPN server goes down or disconnects while you are entering sensitive data and you don’t notice the connection was lost? Without the protection of a VPN kill switch, your devices will often automatically reconnect to the network without alerting you, this time without the protection of your VPN. A kill switch feature blocks sending and receiving data until the VPN connection is re-established.. For maximum protection, select a VPN with a kill switch feature and ensure it has been enabled.
Having a VPN on your home router may seem like a helpful boost to your cybersecurity, but it’s actually the opposite. Most routers lack the processing power of a modern CPU, meaning that even older personal devices (phones, tablets, computers) will have a much easier time handling the task of encrypting/decrypting data than your router will. Instead, set up a VPN for each personal device to prevent a bottleneck of data to your router while simultaneously securing it at all access points. Selecting an easy-to-use VPN solution with cross-device functionality will make this task much easier on the end user, while providing maximum security.
When it comes to cybersecurity, we tend to imagine a nefarious hacker out to steal and sell your data. But not all data collection is illegal. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) has a vested interest in tracking your streaming habits, and they may even throttle your network depending on your usage. Our phones, computers, and tablets are each a potential interception point for our private data. Securing each of your smart devices with a VPN, even those that stay in your home, is the best way to prevent your data from potentially being monitored by third parties.
While your cellular network is more secure than public WiFi options, it remains vulnerable to an attack. LTE user data can be exploited by what is known as an “aLTEr attack”. This attack redirects domain name system (DNS) requests, performing a DNS spoofing attack that can fool your device into using a malicious DNS server. This spoofed DNS server will deliver you to websites as normal until you request a high-value website the attack is targeting, like your banking or email provider. Oftentimes this fake website will scrape your data before you realize what has happened. You give yourself an extra layer of security by wrapping your LTE connection in a VPN, allowing you to access your most sensitive data confidently.
When it comes to getting the most out of your VPN, this list is just the beginning. Our privacy concerns and security needs will continue to change as our connected devices mature and we recommend keeping an eye on your VPN provider for any potential updates to their services.
Ready to take back control of your privacy? Learn how our Webroot WiFi Security VPN protects what matters most wherever you connect.
As the United States midterm elections draw closer, concern surrounding voter information is on the rise, and for good reason. Records for nearly 35 million registered voters from 19 different states were found for sale on a hacker forum, with prices ranging from $500 to $12,500, depending on the state. Unfortunately, a crowdfunding campaign has begun on the forums to purchase each database and post them publicly, with 2 states already being published.
Just a week after Hurricane Florence hit land in North Carolina, a coastline county’s water utilities fell victim to a ransomware attack. Effectively shutting down all services during a time when they are working on emergency operations left the local water authority with limited capabilities until they began the lengthy process of restoring everything from backup files. By choosing to ignore the ransom and restore manually, the utility service has taken on a more time and resource consuming task, as they continue operating without any of their online systems.
A new exploit has been discovered that allows attackers to send a malicious message to other PlayStations that will effectively render the console unusable. The message itself doesn’t even need to be opened to cause considerable damage, resulting in most users performing a factory reset to return everything to normal. While some users have been successful in deleting the message from the mobile app before it causes any harm, others still had to rebuild the system’s database.
Days after Apple released a patch for iOS 12.0 that shutdown a passcode bypass method, the same researcher was able to find yet another way to access the phone illicitly. By using a combination of Siri and the VoiceOver feature, anyone with physical access to the device could obtain pictures, and other data with ease. To make matters worse, the latest bypass also gives attackers the ability to send files to other devices and view them in full resolution, rather than minimized like the previous bypass allowed.
Over the weekend, thousands of emails were sent out to the relatively small population of Iceland, most of which claimed to be from the local police and threatened judicial action if they did not comply. The email then linked victims to a nearly perfect replica of the official Icelandic Police website and requested their social security number. The attack itself was focused on gaining bank details and further compromising already infected computers for more information.
Your SMB clients will be attacked.
Basic security will not stop an attack.
The MSP will be held accountable.
While MSPs may have historically set up clients with “effective” security measures, the threat landscape is changing and the evolution of risk needs to be properly, and immediately, addressed. This means redefining how your clients think about risk and encouraging them to respond to the significant increase in attack volume with security measures that will actually prove effective in today’s threat environment.
Even if the security tools you’ve been leveraging are 99.99% effective, risk has evolved from minimal to material due simply to the fact that there are far more security events per year than ever before.
Again, the state of cybersecurity today is pretty straightforward: with advanced threats like rapidly evolving and hyper-targeted malware, ransomware, and user-enabled breaches, foundational security tools aren’t enough to keep SMB clients secure. Their data is valuable, and there is real risk of a breach if they remain vulnerable.Additional layers of security need to be added to the equation to provide holistic protection. Otherwise, your opportunity to fulfill the role as your clients’ managed security services providerwill be missed, and your SMB clients could be exposed to existential risk.
Start by discussing “acceptable risk.” Your client should understand that there will always be some level of risk in today’s cyber landscape. Working together to define a businesses’ acceptable risk, and to determine what it will take to maintain an acceptable risk level, will solidify your partnership. Keep in mind that security needs to be both proactive and reactive in its capabilities for risk levels to remain in check.
Once you’ve identified where the gaps in your client’s protection lie, map them to the type of security services that will keep those risks constantly managed. Providing regular visibility into security gaps, offering cybersecurity training,and leveraging more advanced and comprehensive security tools will ultimately get the client to their desired state of protection—and that should be clearly communicated upfront.
At this point, it’s not a question of ifSMBs will experience a cyberattack, but when. That’s why it’s important to establish ongoing, communicative relationships with all clients. Assure clients that your security services will improve their risk level over time, and that you will maintain acceptable risk levels by consistently identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating gaps in coverage. This essentially justifies additional costs and opens you to upsell opportunities over the course of your relationship.
Keeping your security solutions well-defined and client communication clear will help validate your offering. Through a combination of advanced software and services, you can build a framework that maps to your clients’ specific security needs so you’re providing the technologies that are now essential for securing their business from modern attacks.
Once you understand how to effectively respond to new and shifting risks, you’ll be in the best possible position to keep your clients secure and avoid potentially debilitating breaches.
For the past 20 years, Webroot’s technology has been driven by our dedication to protecting users from malware, viruses, and other online threats. The release of Webroot® WiFi Security—a new virtual private network (VPN) app for phones, computers, and tablets—is the next step in fulfilling our commitment to protect everyone’s right to be secure in a connected world.
Webroot WiFi Security arrives at a time when the fragile state of our online privacy is becoming more apparent and better understood by internet users around the world. Recent revelations of government surveillance via the Snowden leaks, social media data collection like that in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, and data breaches including the Equifax hack have fueled a palpable rise in data privacy concerns.
Over half of internet users from around the world say they are “more concerned about their online privacy than they were a year ago,” according to a 2018 CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Security and Trust.
Another key factor with grave implications for data privacy in the United States specifically was the 2017 repeal of privacy regulations for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which aimed to ensure broadband customers had choice, greater transparency, and strong security protections for their personal info collected by ISPs.
“ISPs are facing less regulation today, and so can continue to share, sell, and profit by passing on user information to third parties— browser history, location, communications content, financial details, etc.—without the user’s knowledge or consent,” said Webroot Sr. VP of Product Strategy & Technology Alliances Chad Bacher.
Now more than ever, individual users must take steps to regain control over their online privacy and security. Along with keeping trusted antivirus software installed on mobile and home devices, users should actively protect their data in transit over networks with a VPN.
But it’s important to note that all VPN applications are not created equal. Many users looking for a privacy solution find themselves wondering if they can trust that their VPN provider has their interests at heart. Consumer wariness concerning the privacy of VPN products is justified—some VPN apps, especially free ones, are guilty of sharing or selling their user data to third parties, limiting bandwidth, or serving ads. Facebook’s VPN app was recently removed from the Apple App Store® following concerns over the app’s misuse of user data.
Webroot WiFi Security provides one of the most powerful forms of encryption available, AES 256-bit encryption, and protects user data from cybercriminals and ISPs alike. Webroot WiFi Security does not collect your browsing activity, the sites you visit, downloaded data (or shared or viewed), DNS queries, or IP addresses. The full Webroot WiFi Security Privacy Statement can be found here.
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With little to no effort, you snag onto that branch and lift yourself up. With your own strength, you are able to climb up out of the water and into the tree to safety. You have now managed to get out of the water and into a grove of trees. To either side of you is tree line. What I need you to do now is simple. With the river taking you further down stream, you need to catch your bearings. As well, you need to make sure you don't fall out of the tree while moving from one end to the other. And, once you get out of the tree, you need to start running again. So we'll have another set of 3 rolls. I think you'll get this no issue.
Biran was off to an amazing start that was for sure. Nothing was going to stop his progress now, he would not let it.
Biran, you are unstoppable. Nothing can slow you down. You know not only exactly where you're going but also can get there without leaving any tracks until you climb down and start running again. Man. Before you know it, you're going to get there and be on that ship! So, I just need 2 more posts from you before we get there because you have aced all the challenges I had planned up until now.
Everything was going smoothly and without issue thus far. Just a little further and he would be there and get the hell out of Australia for good. Leave his father and this life behind him for greater pastures. Biran used his motivation to power the rest of the way through.
Honestly, I thought you were going to have a much harder time with this. Clearly, all of Biran's failures were simply directions to the fact that his life was not meant to be stuck there with his father. Nothing has ever come this easy to you before. Likely, this will never be this easy again. While I only have 1 more challenge for you, I am sure you will do just fine. Unless i just jinked you then sorry. My bad. Regardless, the last step is honestly getting on the ship.
Entering normal human life was drastically different than village life. While there seemed to be things that mimicked where you came from, there was no one sporting long ears, long tails, or anything in between. These were just humans. Just. Humans. Everything was vastly different when it came to buildings. Buildings as tall as trees, some taller. Oh how you could wander all day! And maybe you would. The ship was easy to find. It stood out against everything else. But, the only problem was...the everything else.
It was time to get on that boat. After his whole life here, could he really go and get on this boat to begin a new life to wherever it was bound? His life would be at the mercy of this ship now and he would go somewhere where there was no comfort of familiarity. He stepped up to rise to the occasion.

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Tristan comes from a conservation background, being a qualified natural resource manager and having published numerous popular articles and scientific papers inlearned journals. He has conducted intensive research in the ornithological field as well as the small mammal field, being the first scientist to ever doan in-depth study of Namibia's only endemic carnivore, the black mongoose.Tristan is a highly qualified safari guide and focusses on select naturalistgroups. Tristan has also served as the chairman of TASA (Tour and SafariAssociation of Namibia) and vice-chairman of NATH (Namibian Academy forTourism and Hospitality), as well as on the executive of FENATA(Federation of Namibian Tourism Associations). He also acts as a lecturer forNATH and serves on the natural resource management advisory committee of the Universityof Technology in Namibia. Knowing no other careers, it goes without saying that Tristan's passion is for the natural world and it protection.
Martin originates from the UK and began his time in Africa during the early eighties. He came to Namibia in 1993 and set up a safari operation called Sandy Acre Safaris. The company concentrated on providing private guided safaris forvisitors from the UK, but this spread into other source markets such as the USA,Switzerland, France and Spain. It also became established as a film services support company, specifically as a contractor for the BBC (this being one ofMartin’s prime roles at Ultimate Safaris). Martin has been on the TASA(Tour and Safari Association of Namibia) board since 1995 and has also acted asChief Executive Officer and later Chairman of the umbrella body FENATA(Federation of Namibian Tourism Associations). His intimate knowledge ofNamibia and Africa as a whole is instrumental in the Foundation’s conservation philosophy.
David grewup in Wankie (Hwange), north-west Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), where the wildlife of Wankie National Park and on the Zambezi River was a part of everyday life.After attaining a degree in Agriculture Economics and a Masters in Wildlife ecology, I worked as an Ecologist with both the Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Department of National Parks. He has been involved with conservation, rural development and safari tourism all his life. Since leaving Zimbabwe NationalParks in 1988, he has worked as a consultant in wildlife management, protected area planning and rural development and in the safari tourism industry throughout southern Africa. He has been fortunate to play a role in planningand establishing private and community Conservancies and Game Reserves throughout Southern Africa, as well as in developing tourism lodges and safari operations in those areas. For almost 12 years he, in addition to his businessactivities, managed the Sindisa Foundation, a United Kingdom registered charity supporting wildlife conservation and rural development in southern Africa. Therole of the Sindisa Foundation in Namibia has now been passed on to the Conservation Travel Foundation. He continues to participate, however, as a Trustee and Advisor, his experience and knowledge is a great asset to the Foundation.

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If my life journey has taught one thing, it is that the student may one day become the teacher. I have dedicated the last eighteen years of my life to seeking health solutions—first within my own family and later with clients in my private practice. I did not set out to become a nutritional counselor or an integrative practitioner. I followed a typical path: I went to college and became a banker then portfolio risk manager. But life had something else in store for me. My son’s illness at a young age forced me to start looking at lifestyle and nutrition. Once I got started, I could not stop. My analytical mind made connections and compelled me to continue studying. Years later my daughter became life-threateningly ill from misdiagnoses and poor medical care.
Carla is a Naturopathic Doctor that joined our team because she believes integrative care is the key to wellness. Growing up, Carla was constantly reminded that the greatest wealth is health. Through her years of education and clinical experience she witnessed firsthand that nutrition is a huge component of health. She believes in Hippocrates’ wise words that food should be your medicine and medicine should be your food. Food choices either bring you closer to health or closer to disease. As a result, her passion is serving as a mentor in each person’s unique journey to their best health.
She is trained in nutrition, lifestyle counseling, biochemical individuality, mind-body wellness, botanical medicine, genomics, and stress management. In addition to her Naturopathic Degree, Carla has an extensive educational background including a Master of Science in Physiology & Complementary and Alternative Medicine from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from University of Saint Joseph. In her spare time, she loves painting, yoga, running, trying new recipes, and staying up to date with research. Carla has been fully trained by Teri on The Cochrane Method, deepening her knowledge of the way we look at the body in health and disease.
Sarah received her Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University with honors and then graduated with a Master of Science degree from the University of North Carolina. Her graduate study research resulted in several publications in peer reviewed journals. She has worked as a biologist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sarah’s work at NIH was in the field of epigenetics – the study of how the environment affects gene expression. It is this work that serves as the foundation for Sarah’s research at Teri Cochrane – Beyond Nutrition. Her scientific investigations focus on supporting the practice’s clinical findings as well as directing new treatment modalities. She has been a part of Teri’s team since 2013 and has played an important role in the evolution of the practice by bridging the gap between our cutting-edge work and mainstream science. Sarah is a recipient of the Department of Commerce 2007 Silver Medal for Leadership and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Margo is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and Nutrition Counselor focusing on diet and lifestyle as key components in healing and achieving optimal wellness. She is a graduate of the Ohio State University and received her Health Coach training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Holistic Nutrition from Hawthorn University. Margo has studied with prominent Doctors of Naturopathy, integrative MD’s, holistic dentists and others who are pioneering new approaches to health and wellness. Margo is a graduate of Full Body Systems – a functional nutrition training program through Holistic Nutrition Lab and is certified as a coach through the School for Applied Functional Medicine. She loves learning and attends multiple integrative wellness conferences and trainings. One of her passions is finding state-of-the-art ways to improve wellness outcomes and bringing them into our practice. Margo has been a part of Teri Cochrane – Beyond Nutrition since 2014.
Ashley James’s journey to help others began with her own medical illness that started at age twelve. Ashley later met Teri while desperate to find answers to her long-term health problems. Having the journey she had before meeting Teri is what gives her the patience and understanding while working every day. Being able to spread hope and knowing there is a reason and there is a better way of living is why she is passionate about her job and education. Ashley is currently studying holistic nutrition at Huntington’s college of health sciences to achieve her board certification and bachelors in integrative health. She is specializing in Pregnancy, Pediatric & Adolescent Nutrition as well as herbal medicine. A goal of Ashley’s is to allow a journey of peace and healing that others were told was not possible.
Mary Murray graduated from James Madison University in 1985 and pursued a career in banking. After her third child was born, Mary was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and started researching using nutrition as a way to be symptom free vs. taking pharmaceutical drugs. She has been symptom free for over 20 years after a complete diet change. Mary became a client of Teri’s and in 2013 started working as Teri’s office manager. Today she is in charge of inventory and other office duties when needed. Mary strongly believes in the work that Teri does and the power of the human body to heal given the right tools.

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Welcome to the brand new UMD Commission for Women website! We decided that it was time for a fresh, new look for the Commission. As always, you’ll be able to find member information, meeting and event schedules, grant application information, resources for you to peruse, and how to support the Commission. We’re looking forward to the 2014-2015 academic year and welcoming several new faces to the Commission.
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(CNN) — Rose Anne Schulman has been known to go into the grocery store, buy fried chicken and eat four pieces of it in the parking lot.
But that was the old her.
At her heaviest, Rose Anne Schulman had no idea what she weighed because she was too embarrassed to step on a scale.
Now when she has that craving she buys a rotisserie chicken, takes the skin off and eats only one piece.
She doesn’t actually know how much weight she’s lost over the last year-and-a-half because she previously was too embarrassed to get on a scale. She knows she once wore a size 20. Now she’s a size 4.
A former dance teacher, Schulman never thought about what she was eating because she burned so many calories with aerobics, jazz, clogging, tap and ballet. Then a broken foot landed her on the couch. She remembers sitting in her house for weeks, eating her sorrows away.
“Every time there was a crisis I turned to food for solace,” the Atlanta resident says. And once she started, she couldn’t stop.
Her weight went up and down as her foot healed and her husband recovered from two different life-threatening illnesses. Schulman would lose 20 pounds then put it back on, then lose and gain again.
The former dance instructor never worried about her weight until she broke her foot. Once she started eating excessively, she couldn’t seem to stop.
Two years ago, she was shopping for a dress to wear to her son’s wedding. Everything she tried on she thought looked like a potato sack. When she finally found a dress, the saleswoman told her it would look better if she lost 5 pounds. Schulman remembers thinking the woman really meant 35 pounds.
With five months until the wedding, she went home and decided to try to lose five pounds by watching what she ate. Those five pounds disappeared pretty quickly.
She soon realized she didn’t need what she calls the frills, such as croutons and mayonnaise-based dressing on salad. She became more and more careful about what she put in her mouth. She read food labels. She stopped sampling her recipes while cooking.
Soon that dress for her son’s wedding in June 2012 was too big. She needed a size 16 and was elated to fit into a “normal” size.
“I didn’t look like the fat lady anymore, but I didn’t look like the skinny lady either,” she says. She kept at it by making simple changes — a strategy she continues today.
At breakfast, for example, she’ll go for low sugar instant oatmeal, which is 110 calories instead of 160 calories for the regular packet. All those extra calories add up over the course of a year, Schulman says, and to save them you aren’t really giving up anything.
Portion control is also important, she says. Instead of eating a sandwich or two for lunch, she has soup and tuna salad or cottage cheese. Because she lacks discipline, she buys individual cups of cottage cheese instead of a big container to prevent herself from eating twice as much as she should.
These days she doesn’t even have the urge to eat anything fattening, although she did enjoy some chocolate cake with ice cream on her birthday. She shared it with her husband, Alan, who is also reaping the benefits of his wife’s change in lifestyle. Alan has lost 85 pounds.
She wants people to know it’s not hard to lose weight if they just make small, simple changes.
Schulman lost 25 pounds before she even added exercise into the equation. Now she takes a Zumba class twice a week and walks several miles to and from her synagogue to attended religious services on Saturday. She says that walk is much easier at her current size than it used to be.
She’s tried other exercise routines such as walking on the treadmill, but says that bores her and she ends up going home and eating afterward.
One year after trying to take off five pounds to fit into that size 20 dress, Schulman was wearing a size 8.
On a recent shopping trip, she came out of the fitting room in a dress and the saleswoman told her it was too big. Schulman laughed and showed the woman a picture of the old her. Then she bought a size 4.
Now Schulman wears a size 4, which she says is not the result of a diet but of a lifestyle change. Her husband Alan has lost 85 pounds.
She says she was happy when she got down to a size 10, but she’s happier at a size 4.
“This is the first time in my life that I feel like I don’t need to lose weight,” she says.
Schulman, now 65, worries about gaining the weight back but knows it’s different this time. She’s still getting used to her new body but says it’s definitely not temporary.


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Oprah’s performance at the Golden Globes was inspirational and motivational. She proved that there can be coherent billionaires competent enough to hold office.
Hollywood is blessed with many articulate and reasonable persons who bring brilliance and life to their roles. Over the decades, we have seen its annual awards shows routinely used by actors and activists to promote political viewpoints and social causes, from opposing blacklists to supporting Native American Indians.
Many of these statements, like the ones this week speaking out against sexual harassment, have spurred national debate. Stars attending this year’s ceremonies, wearing black to drive home the point, were unified in their condemnation of sexual exploitation and couch casting.
These stars damn well had a right to be angry at the unconscionable practice, which abused their dignity and demeaned their lives. But do you ever have a right to be angry with them. I am. In fact, I am as angry at them as I am at the accused.
Hollywood represents an industry that makes, creates, and distributes films, which illuminate courageous lives. Their very reason for being is to educate and entertain; give meaning and purpose to individuals willing to buck the status quo and break new ground. Their art brings to life the Rosa Parks, Karen Silkwoods and Harvey Milks we would otherwise never know.
The revelation that these artists and actors, millionaires all, living lives of leisure and privilege, remained silent in the face of wrong, for decades, is repulsive to me. While portraying lives illuminating the courage of others, they were cowards themselves. The specific blame I lay not on the victims whose silence was understandable given the climate and circumstances they lived in and were exposed to. The anger I have is directed towards the conspiracy and complacency their “friends” tolerated and allowed.
This disgusting and vile sexual exploitation of actors was apparently so transparent and well known in Hollywood Seth Mc Farlane openly joked about it at an Oscar ceremony four years and 45 Harvey Weinstein films ago. How did so many of the well heeled participate in a despicable conspiracy of silence? It’s outrageous, offensive, and inexcusable. True friends would have spoken up sooner. True friends would have said this conduct has no place in their homes.
Entertainers should have publicly exposed couch casting and its caretakers for years.
If you ask how could it be that so many knew so much and said so little, the answer is simple – greed. As long as the checks kept coming and the headlines got written, the Hollywood elite looked the other way at abusive behavior and wrongful conduct. They determined it was the price of doing business under Tinseltown rules. As a consequence, victims remained victimized.
Like athletes whose home runs were launched by steroids, a host of performers sold their soul to the devil while playing the roles of angels. The industry they praise needed individuals with more integrity. The next movie they need to make is a movie about their own fears and lack of fortitude, exposing and shaming their own hypocrisy. Today, we can celebrate the new day on the horizon Oprah has heralded in. But too many were too silent for too long. As a consequence, good people suffered.
AIDS activists learned years ago that ‘silence equals death.’ Hollywood could and should have done better. Its only remedy today is to tell the truth they failed to tell yesterday, and shine a light on the wrongs that need to be righted, and should never have been tolerated. Too many victims for too long. Time’s up.

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Small business owners should be well aware of state requirements for annual reporting, which can include franchise taxes. A franchise tax is something all entrepreneurs have to pay as the “privilege” or “cost” of doing business in a given state. In return, small business owners enjoy liability protections under state law.
In this post, we’ll dig deeper into the Texas state franchise taxes — particularly what changed after it went through a massive overhaul of its franchise tax in 2006. These changes took effect in 2008 and became known as the margin tax.
There was a longstanding criticism that Texas’ tax system was misaligned with the structure of the economy. Whereas the state and local entities rely heavily on property and sales taxes — which fall on industries that produce and sell goods — Texas was moving toward a service-based economy.
To better reflect the fastest-growing sector of the state’s economy, its tax reform was to shift part of the tax burden from goods-producing industries to service-providing industries. This was accomplished primarily through reductions in property taxes.
The idea of the margin tax was simple: Calculate your Texas tax by taking a few items from your businesses’ federal tax return. But because the IRS is flexible in what companies can include these items, it created some confusion. In turn, the state of Texas had to create definitions specific to these terms.
“Delaware Sub:” A business places its Texas operations into a partnership and creates an “out-of-state” corporate subsidiary as a limited partner. As a result, neither the partnership or out-of-state limited partner were subject to the Texas franchise state tax.
“Geoffrey’s Sub:” A company creates an out-of-state subsidiary as owner of intangible property (i.e., trademarks and patents.) Income to the out-of-state subsidiary wasn’t subject to the franchise tax.
Profit Shifting: Unlike large corporations, certain smaller corporations didn’t have to add the amount of compensation paid to their company officers and directors to their tax base. Instead, these businesses had the option to pay their earnings as compensation to owners who were officers or directors. In turn, they converted profit into a deductible business.
The former Texas controller warned that these tax-saving strategies were eroding the tax base. Under the margin tax, these methods no longer offered any tax benefit.
If you’re a small business owner in Texas, this section is key to help you understand your franchise tax requirements.
Originally, businesses with less than $434,782 in receipts were exempted; this level is now set at over $1 million. Companies owing less than $1,000 are also exempt. Businesses with less than $10,000 in total revenues may opt for a simplified “EZ calculation” based on gross receipts.
Your annual franchise tax report is due on May 15. If that date falls on a weekend or holiday, the due date will be on the next business day.
If you plan to terminate, merge, or withdraw from the Texas Secretary of State’s office, you’ll need to file and pay your company’s final franchise tax report in the same year you plan on doing so.
If tax is paid anywhere from 1-30 days after the due date, a 5 percent penalty is assessed.
As for interest, past due taxes are charged interest at 61 days after the due date.
For help filing your annual tax report in Texas or any other state, Incfile’s Annual Report service can answer any questions and guide you through the process.

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While I was slowly accumulating, the majority of fortune seekers in California were saving nothing. If they mined, they were shifting from place to place, or squandering money in impracticable ventures, such as turning rivers out of their channels; or else they lost as fast as they made by bucking at monte.
If freighting, they must have a mule team and feed it; put up at a boarding house while in Stockton; pay a dollar for a meal and twenty-five cents for a cigar or glass of whiskey at the tavern tents stuck up at every water hole along the road. Many, especially those from the North became homesick immediately upon arriving at the diggings, and if they had money enough to pay their way back, would auction off their paraphernalia and take the back track. Many who would gladly have got away had to stay; and even now some men stay in California because too poor to get away. Those who made the most were those who fleeced the miners.
Nicholas Dawson was proud of his ability to save money by “the most slavish labor and rigid economy.” He went home with $1600 in gold dust.
How much would $1600 be worth today? According to Measuring Worth, $1600 in 1850 would have the purchasing power of $50,100 today. Enough to give a man with a family a good start in Texas.

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As a beginner or even an experienced skateboarder who want to switch to the field of longboarding, you might find it overwhelmed because of all the information that requires your attention.
What deck sizes or truck sizes should you choose? How do they affect your skating experiences? All your questions will be answered in the articles below.
It’s the ultimate guide that you’ll ever need to get yourself the right longboard.
Generally speaking, when talking about longboard deck sizes, there are a few factors that need your attention. The length, which is the measure of the deck from front to back. The width, which the measure of the deck between the two rears. Finally, it’s the thickness and shape, which have large impacts on how your board performs and which skating styles they are more suitable for.
Here we’ll be going through all the important elements on a longboard and provide you simple explanations on whether they’re good for you.
Longboards are usually quite long compared to skateboards. They also come in many different lengths, but most of the time, a longboard is still relatively longer compared to skateboards.
Our post consists of all the best tricks that you can learn to perform on your skates. You can practice them anytime to improve your skills as well as make you look cooler in the eyes of others.
To start with, let’s assume that you’ve known all the basic moves on your new pair of skates and can ride on them comfortably. But if you haven’t, you might want to take a look at some basic guides, just for your own good.
Now, let’s take a look at our top 10 rollerblade tricks.
This is one of the most basic tricks that you need to master when practicing skating. It’s also a simple exercise to strengthen your leg, once you’ve mastered it, your movements will be a lot faster.
You should first practice one-legged skating by resting one of your hands on the barrier while keeping the other hand straight to propel yourself. Raise one foot in the air facing backward, you can vary the position to which you’re most comfortable with. Use the arms on the barrier to help you move around and release it once you feel ready, try doing this until you achieve good balance on one leg.

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This, quite possibly, might be a first. We're all used to brand after brand after brand mucking up our Twitter feed with promoted tweets. But have you ever seen an individual purchase a promoted tweet to better guarantee his complaint won't go unnoticed?
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We picked up a nice Belgian Gelding last Sunday to team up with Oz. He is a good match size wise and I hitched them together yesterday to harrow in the winter rye in the potato patch.
I found myself using way more line pressure than I like because my older horse Oz was almost trying to trot which in turn made Tucker, the new horse, want to keep up. Now I have not hitched him in a week and I am sure he was glad to be out of the paddock, but it took a while to calm him down. After almost 2 hr of harrowing, the walk home to the barn was much easier.
I noticed the same response from Oz last winter when hitched to another horse we had boarded. Oz is super soft with the lines when I drive him single and it is never an issue. Do you think it is a dominance reaction, or maybe a little competition in his mind to want to be ahead?
I am considering putting the curb chain on his bit and trying that with a small amount of leverage to see if it will make a difference. I changed Oz bit to a straight bar last winter and hooked to the side ring with no curb chain. I realize there are a lot of subtle things that could be going on here and my explanation is probably vague, but have any of you ever had a similar issue and how did you handle it?
The situation is not unmanageable, bit it required more pressure than I think should be necessary to accomplish the task at hand. I tend to overthink things in general and maybe it is a simple as them needing to pull the chain harrow for a couple of hours and getting some sweat under the collar.
This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Ed Thayer.
Fine looking gelding, Ed. I have been dealing with this issue for a lot of years and might be I am too ignorant and hard-headed, but I just have learned to work with it rather than change it. My oldest mare (19) is a dream horse working single—perfect even for training novices—but no matter who she is hitched with out of our other three she must be in charge and ramps up in a team. Same thing out riding—even if someone else is riding a long-legged thoroughbred/Hanovarian—this scrappy little Fjord wants to be out front. I have tried using a short snub line from her halter ring to the other horses’ hame ring—also tried a jockey stick years ago—she resisted them and just made the driving more messy. I have not tried a buck-back rope–but I am sure this horse would just rub it’s nose raw if I did. So on anything heavy, like disc or spreader—she always goes a little faster than I would wish and even with a Pelham bit I have to hold her back some. My older two horses who work with her but are naturally more laid back, step up to her pace (and settle right back down when I work them as a team), but my youngest just goes a long for the ride and lets her do the work. Oddly, she slows down pretty well for plowing and perfectly well for cultivating—a very smart horse. Now that I have trained in some younger horses that are slower I have come to appreciate the work ethic of this mare–even if I get sick and tired some days of having to hold her back. Also,market garden jobs tend to shorter duration of one hour or less—on longer jags of raking or tedding she can get into what the Muleman calls no-pressure driving. Not much help here–but commiseration.
A couple of other thoughts. I do modify my hitches slightly when working with this very forward mare. All four horses have Pelham bits with curb chains—but I set put her partners’ bit either direct off the ring or at the lowest setting for leverage—while she gets the maximum. I sometimes let out a link or two on the trace chains of the youngest and slowest mare so she meets the load sooner.
I have had the same dynamic many times. As I have mentioned before, I found that it seems more a reaction to the slacking attitude of the other horse. A forward horse may be just very responsive, and the other horse unfamiliar, or uncomfortable with the expectations.
Either way, I still follow the old adage, “a working horse is a walking horse”.
As an aside, I am pretty sure that the Mollie horse that was working with Tucker would act the same way…….
Thanks for the info, I am going to hitch them tomorrow and get some manure spread.
How much slack should there be on the curb chain under the chin?
They make the curb chain adjustable for a reason. Truthfully it should be snug, but some animals in certain situations may pull on the lines by the way they move their head, and if it is too tight it can compromise their forward motion. I have one horse that tends to need the lines down a notch, but unless the curb is on the last link he acts like I am holding him back.
Here is a quote from Les Barden’s document (attached) on lines and driving….
12.	The adjustment of reins to keep horses reined-up evenly is a constant part of driving.
There is in theory a perfect setting that will provide equitable contact to each horse simultaneously, and there is a sweet spot where communication and understanding co-exist, but in reality the wind blows from many different directions all at the same time, and a little change here to address something may work, and truthfully is important, but there are often other areas that also need attention, or areas still that are beyond control, and we should be open to continually modifying our approach to refine communication.
This is what draws me into the teamster relationship. Communication to me is not just the transfer on information, but a dance of individual expression in an effort to attain mutual understanding. If a horse is having a hard time doing what I want, while I respect their individual expression, I am more interested in what it should be telling me about my inadequate communication…… then I start looking for tools and techniques to assist me in clearer messaging.
Another thing I thought of that really has nothing to do with the bit or lines, is the foundational training of a horse. Thinking about Tucker and Mollie, and now Tucker and Oz, I wonder what it is that Tucker doesn’t quite get, that the others do. I have had this problem primarily with one horse that I never really spent much time with individually. Due to time constraints, and the need for a team, I pretty much started him off in the team.
There are a lot of things that horses can learn from the reactions of the other horses, and possibly a comfort level in exposure to equipment and work, but if the more experienced horse is just too responsive, then the novice may be more put off by the sudden activity in relation to a misunderstood or miscomprehended signal. Once that habit starts, there is probably a cascade of other subtle communication that never make it beyond the dynamic between animals.
I found that by using a Liverpool bit, the added individual pressure gave me the ability to hold my experienced mare closer, and gave me the opportunity to work with the novice, encouraging him to get up to speed with the mare. Working him individually is always good, but once a horse develops a habitual behavior related to working in a team, never understanding the need to pay attention to the teamster, or reticent to commit power in the presence of the more aggressive horse, these things really can only be addressed in the team by improving subtle communication calming down the worker, and encouraging the slacker.
I also have a very forward mare and an eager to please, but not as experienced gelding. They are well matched most of the time except when anticipating a big pull, and Jr. (the mare), really puts Bernie in the dust. I have my reins adjusted too, that Bernie has more slack then Jr. When ground driving, I typically place myself behind Bernie, more incentive for him to step up and more direct line pressure with Jr. I also work in straight mouth military curbs that I have added loops of twine to (the curb chain) so that I can let them out farther on Bernie then Jr. I often find that starting out for the day I have the reins on the lowest, most leveraged setting, and after about 20 minutes or so, I can adjust to a more mild setting. For really delicate work I have the reins on the snaffle setting and the curb out all the way. But NOT unhooked, that’s a hazard – that’s why I added twine length. Then if I have to drive on the road I may adjust back or so on and so forth.
Also Ed, if you haven’t driven this horse in a curb before you may want to start off mild, some horses can find them really offensive – but you wouldn’t catch me without one. Typically a finger or two between the curb chain and the crease of the chin is a good setting, but it depends on how your reins are set. You can experiment by rotating the bit and seeing for yourself how long it takes the curb to contact the chin. Also, when setting the chain, rotate it clockwise until it lies flat against the surface of the skin, it is most effective this way and won’t rub, which is just rude. Sorry if this info is redundant for you.
Hi all, To me this is the essence of being a teamster, and I love it. We want the same response at the same instant from two individuals (the horses) that a) are not identical, and b) need to figure out a relationship between them selves while we ask for them to pay attention to just us. It is surely a dance. Often we try to use our voice, but it is hard to send the message to just one animal with our voice.
With my hands on the lines, my question for myself is: can I send signals that will gradually change behavior, or am I stuck ‘just holding one of the horses back”. I have often used a curb chain and leverage, but I prefer to do it with an animal that will change their response in reaction to the added leverage. My donkey has taught me a lot about the fact that leverage will not work in every case, and is not the only way to convey our desires to an individual.
I have never really thought of curb chains as being adjustable for different responses. Too tight and your animal feels the contact all the time and is uncomfortable. If the chain is full on loose it is hanging down in the loose flesh of the chin, and this will cause a sore. I think two fingers un the chain is best.
I am interested in Les’s comment about reins adjustment and will try to read that later today. We have several options for adjusting the lines. I once had an old friend that was sort of a part time horseman and he was driving an old pair of haflingers. He was having trouble getting one of them to go (the smart one I think). I asked him why the horses were bitted down as they seemed so “off” the bit and quite to drive. He told me that was how the harness had come. We all have to learn how to make these adjustments to get the results we want.
I loved reading Les’s pfd. Even though there are things I don’t understand completely, or copy completely; you can sense a man in complete control of himself and his animals. I hope / plan to continue learning as long as I am driving. Recently we have been untying some of my lines, but it is amazing how hard it is to make changes like that after so many years doing it one way!
My Donkey has been a great teacher for me trying new ways to comunicate. He doesn’t always stop well. He can be walking along quitely and if he thinks the two hands on the lines are a challenge he will be hard to stop on the command “whoa”. I have been learning to stop him much as I have learned to drive him; by ensuring that I keep my signals moving from hand to hand. Ensentially I stop him with one hand and a verbal “whoa”. I can try to teach him to stop on the slack line. My horses vary from one extreme to the other as far as how well they stop with out a reminder from the bit. Some stop on a dime with no contact from the bit, and one mule will walk into the bit every time. I am sure I have taught these animals all these responses. Now that I have so much young stock, it is a great chance to teach something different.
Thanks for all the great information. In an effort to “get er done” yesterday, I did not set up the Liverpool bit with the curb chain. I ran it in the large ring and hitched the boys to disc the gardens. That was just what they needed. Steady work and a good pull.
This is such a great forum with lots of good information, thanks to all who continue to contribute.
We got the potato patch disced and harrowed this week, now we can plant our potatoes this weekend. Horses worked great in the field, still keyed up though when walking the mile to get there though.
Thanks for posting the video. Horses look good. Have you tried playing around with different settings on your lever bit? How is that working?
Hi Ed, I was thinking about your horses and what I often tell folks when they find them selves in similar situations with horses of mine that don’t match too well. I think it is possible to pay too much attention to what is not “right” in the hitch. I suggest they develop the ability to “see” what is going on (being aware) and then ignore it. By ignore it I mean temporarily focus on what is “right”. You can control how fast they go; where they go and when they stop. The I suggest they relax and think about the difference between the two animals as a long term project. What small things can I do over time that will improve this situation? Line adjustment, different signals from my hands More voice or less voice?
I have been using the curb chain with Ozzie and he seems to respond well to the bit. I have not put a chain on Tucker. They pull very well together, respond well to commands and stand nicely when asked to.
They still seem to be working out their small differences, and I have decided to let them work it out on their own. They need more consistent work and I am trying to keep them busy. But I still have to work everyday and have limited time to work them.
I remember the first few months I had Oz and thought I would never get him calmed down. But after sticking with it, he has become an awesome worker and great horse. I think the same thing will happen with Tucker. We just need time and work.
I have had similar experiences both with my own team as well as with a team that I am helping to train with a landowner whose lot I am working. When I first got my gelding Bob, he was a total handful. His partner at the time, Pete, was steady and level headed in all situation, but Bob would rear up, paw the ground, and was always on the bit and out front with a load on. In fact, for the first month I had Bob I thought maybe I had made a bad purchase with that horse. I put both horses on Liverpool bits with chains, running Pete’s lines on the bit ring and Bob’s down the curb so he get more direction, and that has made all the difference in the world. Three years later, Bob now works in the bit ring with no problems. I think the success I have had with him is likely a combination of increased bit pressure from the bit and chain as well as more relationship with me, but the results are startling when I think back to where we started. I know some folks are totally against using a curbed bit, but I really think when they are used properly they can be a huge help. Some horses just need the additional pressure to work well. Bob now has a mare as his running mate, and they do well together, but I still use the surged bits so that when I need more pressure I can use it effectively. Also, Carl Russell helped me adjust he length of my check lines, which also made a positive difference for my team, especially with Bob. The team that I am training has a similar situation, with an older mare who is very headstrong, and a younger mare who has a very soft mouth. Again, the curbed bits have allowed us to give the right amount of direction to each horse, with some good results. Driving a machine in the woods could never be this interesting!!

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