Sharing Your Boarding Pass Is A Bad Idea

Last Friday we covered some of the security issues travelers can face when staying at a hotel.  Today we are going to look at air travel – specifically the bad things that can happen to you if you carelessly discard or foolishly post a picture online of your airline boarding pass.

For some reason, people like to post images of their boarding passes on ...

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What You Can Do After The Equifax Breach

The Equifax breach has been all over the news this weekend, and it should be.  This is worse than they are telling us.  It most certainly DOES affect you, if you are adult and have ever purchased a car or opened a credit card account.  Don’t wait to be told you are a victim.  Assume you are a victim.

In a world where we are all suffering from “breach fatigue,” having suffered through dozens if not hundreds of these revelations about ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Equifax Security Breach Is A Complete Disaster… And Will Almost Certainly Get Worse


‘Pulse wave’ DDoS – another way of blasting sites offline

If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that any new way of DDoSing will reveal that there are a huge number of undefended devices online.


It’s baaaack: ...

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Phishing Protection In Outlook and Office 365

There are four ways that a typical business user on a Microsoft Outlook/Exchange/Office 365 platform can utilize.  While these may not be perfect, and all of them have issues, applying these solutions will help prevent your users for falling victim to phishing emails.  These solutions are additive, and each additional solution deployed provides a further layer of protection.

Junk Mail Filter – Outlook comes with a built-in Junk Mail filter that, ...

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Autonomous Robotic Weapons

We already have some highly sophisticated weapons systems that use computer technology and electronics to do things on a battlefield undreamed of even a few decades ago.  This does include robotic weapons systems.  The important ingredient in all this tech is the presence of human control.  At this point in time it still takes a human to drive these war machines.

But we are not the far from being able to ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Potential Hurricane Harvey Phishing Scams

08/28/2017 02:40 PM EDT  Original release date: August 28, 2017

US-CERT warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity seeking to capitalize on interest in Hurricane Harvey. Users are advised to exercise caution in handling any email with subject line, attachments, or hyperlinks related to Hurricane Harvey, even if it appears to ...

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Investigating Email Headers

When I am investigating an email exploit, I will take a look at the email headers.  Email headers in an email are a lot like the html code in a web site.  This is information that the machines that create, send, and receive the email use for routing, and for providing other information about the message.  As a human, we do not see the headers unless we specifically look for ...

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NIST Warns Against Lack of Security in Critical Infrastructure

NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) released Special Publication 800-53 version 4 recently, and it covers the shortcomings in privacy and security in the national power grid, water control systems, dams, oil and gas utilities and similar computer controlled systems.  There are no coherent or enforceable standards for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems ...

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