At the end of September, the Senate passed the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act for Small Business. This is an effort to help small businesses deal with the technical aspects and costs associated with creating a cybersecurity program and protecting their digital assets from attack or compromise. The Act instructs NIST to create a plan for small businesses that is based on the NIST Cybersecurity ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Tech company Gravity Payments instituted a $70 K minimum wage two years ago. It has long been my personal contention that the drop in real starting wages (against inflation) coupled with ...
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AOL Instant Messenger is dead. Well, not quite yet, but it will be on December 15. AOL and Yahoo have been merged together as Oath in their respective mega-mergers with Verizon. As a product offering AIM had to go.
In the 90’s, AOL made the Internet popular and approachable by the masses. It wasn’t the first public service, but it was everywhere, flooding ...
Continue Reading →Saw this display at a computer conference. These are all memory modules or different ways to move and store information.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Apple Releases Security Updates
09/25/2017 08:08 PM EDT Original release date: September 25, 2017
Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for ...
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Happy Friday the 13th. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business. Often it is the simple things that work the best. Running automatic Windows and Microsoft updates, and applying updates and patches for Adobe, Apple, Android, and other products often are the best way to close the door on a new exploit ...
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business.
Has anyone from your company’s IT department asked you to join the cybersecurity staff? No? Well consider yourself invited.
Cybersecurity has become an critically important part of computer and network operations, but frankly, no company can afford to hire all the information security professionals that it needs. And that is if they can find anyone ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.09/12/2017 05:26 PM EDT Original release date: September 12, 2017
US-CERT is aware of a collection of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, known as BlueBorne, potentially affecting millions of unpatched mobile phones, computers, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A remote attacker could exploit several of these vulnerabilities to take ...
Continue Reading →There is a new twist on an old tax scam appearing in email inboxes recently. The new phishing exploit uses both IRS and FBI emblems to scare recipients into provide personal information on a downloadable questionnaire. You can read the official warning here.
I like to remind people that the IRS only communicates with taxpayers by postal mail. Sometimes they might send a US Marshal. And the FBI certainly would not be sending an email when they can ...
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