Has it been another year already? Tomorrow is System Administrator Appreciation Day.
Gifts are always appreciated. Some easy do-ers. Mountain Dew, Doritos, Pie, Pizza.
Here are some cool ideas from my Pinterest feed.
On Monday we opened this discussion about hijacked email accounts, and showed some examples of the phishing tricks that attackers use to get you to reveal your email password. Today we will explore the many useful and profitable exploits that a compromised email account offers a cyber-criminal or other attacker.
I consider email account compromise to be one of the most personally harmful cyber-exploits. When another person has access to your ...
Continue Reading →FBI Releases Article on Protecting Business Email Systems
05/31/2017 07:45 PM EDT
(***Watch for our 4 part series on Email Account Hijacking starting Monday***)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an article on Building a Digital Defense with an Email Fortress. FBI warns that scammers commonly target business email accounts with phishing and social engineering schemes. Strategies for preventing email compromises include avoiding the use of free web-based email accounts; using multi-factor ...
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Every now and again I client will ask an interesting question that sends me off on a bit of web research. Yesterday, a client I was working with wanted to know if there was a website that had a computer incident cost calculator. It seemed like there must be such a thing, and I found several good ones on
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Here is a quick little survey to help you determine how likely you are to be the victim of a cyber-attack or cyber-criminal exploit. Give yourself a point for each “Yes” answer.
I am honored to be presenting at the 2017 ISSA International Conference, October 9-11 in San Diego, CA. This year’s theme is “Digital Danger Zone.” Please join me for networking, education, and fun.
I will be presenting “Shields Up for WordPress Web Sites and Blogs.” This presentation covers the threat of website hijacking, what an attacker wants to do with your ...
Continue Reading →Verizon says data of 6 million customers leaked online
If you are a Verizon customer, you may want to consider updating your user information and account password.
About 6 million Verizon subscribers’ personal data was leaked online thanks to a security lapse from Nice Systems, an Israel-based company that partnered with Verizon to analyze customer service calls. The information stemmed from recorded customer service calls over the past six months.
The leaks included customer names, cell phone numbers and account PINs, which can ...
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It is widely believed that Satoshi Nakamoto is the inventor of an encryption technique called “blockchain.” I just read a new book by Sarah Westall titled “FIRST: Meet the Inventor of Blockchain” that credits Dr Kelce Wilson as the true inventor of blockchain, a concept he developed between 2000 and 2001 while serving ...
Back in February 2010, the Minneapolis StarTribune website was the victim of a malvertising exploit. Visitors to the Strib website would download malware that caused the computer to become slow and malfunction. Then a pop-up window would appear that advised the visitor that their computer was infected with malware, and the purchase of a $49.95 anti-malware product would solve the problem. I remember working on the computers of several clients ...
Not sure if Weekend Update is going to become a regular feature on Saturdays, but you might keep an eye out for a few more of these. What follows is a copy and paste from alert emails I receive from the FBI, Department of Justice, FTC, and US-CERT. Also content from other bloggers, such as Sophos Naked Security block, Brian Krebs, Bruce Schneier, WordFence blog, and others that I read ...
