A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Sometime around April 3—give or take about a week—China’s 9.5-ton Tiangong-1 space station will fall out of orbit and enter Earth’s atmosphere. While media reports for the last few months have hyped the “uncontrolled” de-orbit as ...
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Which means we all get into our cars and spend the day driving in reverse? Not quite. What this means for some of your that today is the day you quit kicking that can down the road and set up a data backup for your systems. Hardware, software, cloud – pick your poison and set it up.
For those of you who are already using a backup solution, today would be a ...
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I recently read an article from Heimdal Security about online safety. In this article Heimdal had asked 18 experts in the field of cybersecurity for their top 3 ideas about how to stay secure. The contributors included top cybersecurity professionals from several anti-malware companies, security bloggers, and cybersecurity industry professionals. The original article is here.
What I found interesting were the ...
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Thanks to Datarecovery.com, for alerting us to this issue. They have seen a high number RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) attacks lately. Generally, these attacks are targeting Microsoft Windows-based servers, where port 3389 has been left open.
The attacker scans for open port 3389, and then uses a password dictionary attack to break the server password. Once the password is found, the attacker can exploit the server or sell access to the server ...
Continue Reading →Occasionally I will write a book review for this blog, and then set up an Amazon link in a half-hearted attempt at “monetizing” my blog. Let’s just say I haven’t quit my day job just yet.
Here are some great books for coders, and they should be funny for coders and anyone who ever has used a computer program (the rest of us.)
When a smartphone is stolen, it is a disaster. You have just given the keys to your online life, your email, social media accounts, and credit cards you have synced with an app. If you have the new smart locks on your home or office, you also gave them literal keys, the ability to open those locks. If you have live camera feeds ...
Toward the end of last year I made a pair of bold predictions. The first, that ransomware exploits would start declining, because anti-malware software companies were bringing products online that would prevent the encryption from taking place. The second, there would be an increase in Business Email Compromise (BEC) exploits, as cyber-criminals turned to new income streams. I was only half right.
BEC exploits have increased, because the potential returns are so ...
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On Wednesday we discussed the importance of backing up your website as part of a larger cybersecurity strategy. Today we are going to look at feature considerations for you as you decide which backup plugin is right for you.
Personally, I have used both Backup WordPress and Updraft Plus, and I have been satisfied with both of them. When you search for backup plugins, ...
Continue Reading →Are you backing up your website? If your web server crashed, how quickly could you get your site back online? If your website is hijacked, compromised, or infected with a malicious download, how long would it take you to recover?
We have harped for years on the importance of backing up your data and files, and testing them to see if you can actually ...
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Controlling your professional information can mean managing the information you disclose on professional networking sites such as LinkedIn. It can also mean protecting the client and employee information you have gathered through your employment. It may mean securing your computer network from outside and inside attackers, or your website from compromise. It may mean properly securing online assets such ...