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Social media dominates many facets of our day to day life. Most of us spend ten minutes here or 30 minutes there scrolling through our preferred app, be it Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. Besides the fact that these platforms show us things that we might be interested in, allow us to connect with old friends or talk to distant family members, they generally just provide a whole lot of entertainment!

A problem that has made it's way into the public spotlight in recent years, however, is the use of spam bots and troll accounts to spread disinformation, specifically when it comes to politics.

Google has collected endless amounts of data, conducted countless studies, spent millions of dollars and logged thousands of hours all in the name of trying to better understand their employees. One initiative was to try and understand what makes a team effective.

Recent years have brought an abundance of new, highly convenient and easy-to-use solutions for common problems. Gone are the days of having to bring cash to someone to pay them back, delivering checks to banks only to find out that they're closed for an obscure federal holiday, or having to jump through hoops in order to get a balance on your bank account.

In any business, big or small, employees can be your biggest IT threat, and they might not even realize it. Businesses already face countless cyberthreats, like data breaches, cyber-attacks, online viruses and malicious e-mails. But despite all these outside threats, the real problem can come from the inside.

Cybercriminals are known for their crafty and sometimes ingenious methods for compromising accounts and networks. The list below describes some methods that you are likely quite familiar with, and perhaps some that you have not seen before.

PHISHING. This one is the most common, and is the attack vector you are most likely to see on a daily basis.