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If you have been following this blog for a while, you may find yourself thinking that the time has definitely come to do “something” about cybersecurity in your business.  As a busy and successful entrepreneur, business owner or senior manager you may have no idea where to begin, or where you will find the time to create and implement a plan.  The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a 41 page roadmap for businesses to use in ...

One of my favorite reads is Computerworld Daily Shark.  These are stories from the field, provided by IT professionals for the amusement and education of other IT professionals. Most of these stories are real head-slappers, on the order of how-can-they-be-so-dumb.  Basically this is a form of group therapy for those of us in the business; we get to read about situations that are worse than the ones that are driving us crazy in our own professional lives.

The story ...

Ok, if you are not a Saturday Night Live fan, you won’t know what this stuff is, but just in time for SNL’s 40th Anniversary, SNL has teamed up with candy store chain ItSugar to provide a host of SNL products from made famous on the comedy show’s skits.

I can remember when I was in college, I basically quit going out on Saturday nights just so I could ...

More good news (NOT) from the hacker frontier.  In a talk that is scheduled twin cybersecurity conferences BlackHat (August 2-7. Mandalay Bay Hotel) and DefCon in Las Vegas (Aug 7-10 Rio Hotel and Casino), cybersecurity researcher Logan Lamb will present a demonstration on how home and business security systems are vulnerable to hacking.

The problem lies with the newer wireless security systems.  Wireless window, door, and motion sensors are largely unencrypted, and can be intercepted and spoofed ...

Hey – short answer – yes very probably.  But how can you find out if your personal data or credit card information has been compromised somewhere you shop, patronize, or frequent, either online or in person?

I originally intended to put together a list of the larger breaches, but seriously, there were too many of them.  In 2013 and 2014, there have been 835 breaches that exposed 265.5 million records.  Totally frightening statistics.  So where did I find this information.  I ...

I know I am a day late, but what can I say.  Another fun collection form my pal and car mechanic Aaron Miller, of Miller Bros Auto Repair in Somerset Wisconsin.

• I’m going to stand outside. So if anyone asks, I am outstanding.
• I’m so bright my mother calls me son.
• My eyelids are so sexy, I can’t keep my eyes off them.
• The past, present and future walk into a bar. It was tense.
• Silence is golden, Duct ...

According to an article on Sophos, turning your website into an HTTPS secure site will improve your Google page rank.  Google is making securing the web one of their top priorities, and something that web developers and web site owners can do is acquire a security certificate from a Certificate Authority and apply it to their web site.  This will make every transaction, no matter how mundane, a  more secure experience for site visitors by encrypting all information ...

From the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)

On September 10th, just a few days before the FCC’s net neutrality comment deadline, internet users and tech companies will unite for the “Internet Slowdown” to show the world what’s at stake if we lose net neutrality, the “First Amendment of the Internet.”

We need everyone’s help right now to make this huge. Here’s what you can do right now to help make the Internet Slowdown go viral:

1. Forward this post to your friends and ...

Data breaches are becoming so commonplace at this point that whether or not your company has one is less a matter of “if” and more a matter of “when.”  It is a almost an inevitable certainty that your company will have one – if you haven’t already.  And if you are not looking for them, you may never know that it has happened to you.

Ignorance may be bliss – right up until the day you succumb to a Continue Reading →