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Guest Post – What You Need To Know About Cybersecurity Before Launching Your New Business

4 Strategies To Keep Your Company Safe

Each day, phishing, malware, and other cyber attacks affect companies of all sizes. While most people only hear about large scale attacks that happen on a national or international scale, small businesses are often a choice target. Why? Lacking the proper defenses and resources, hackers and cyber criminals find small businesses to be easy victims. That’s why it is important to recognize that no matter the size of your company, everyone ...

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Friday Phish Fry

Phishing Email Alerts

Catch of the Day: DHL Shipping Phish with a side of Trojan Horse

Chef’s Special: Exchange Phish

Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.

I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.

My intention is to ...

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Guest Post – Four Tips to Help Keep You Safe and Secure Online

The world has evolved so much in the past few years. These changes are even more apparent in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, with people and businesses forced to adapt and move everything online, from office meetings to grocery shopping.

Need to buy a pair of jeans? Ran out of groceries for the week? Craving your favorite food? All of these ...

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MAR

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Weekend Update

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

Fake Trump Sex Tape Lure Delivers QRat

While reviewing spam traps, a particular campaign piqued Trustwave’s interest primarily because the attachment to the email did not coincide with the theme of the email body. The email, with the Subject “GOOD LOAN OFFER!!”, at ...

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How Did They Get My Password?

Password theft – One of the easiest exploits for a cyber-criminal may be the one of the worst for the victim. The recent SolarWinds disaster (yes it is a disaster, not just hyperbola) began when a Russian cyber-ops group discovered the password to the SolarWinds update server was “protected” by the password SolarWinds123. This password is easily guessable and a terrible choice for a critical system such as an update ...

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DEC

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account hijacking, Computers and Internet, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, cyberwar, Dark Web, passwords, Phishing, social engineering

SolarWinds

Thanksgiving Turkey Award – Worst Passwords of 2020

If the Pandemic wasn’t enough to deal with, we still have to deal with people and their poor password choices.

Three passwords security controls that really make a difference.

Make your passwords longer than 12 characters
Use a password manager to create and remember long random passwords that are different for every location or resource.
Use two-factor authentication everywhere you can.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving – Be sure to watch the video below.

Top 200 Worst Passwords of 2021 from NordPass

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NOV

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authentication, Humor, passwords

Weekend Update

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

AA20-198A: Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation

Original release date: July 16, 2020

This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques.

Attributing malicious cyber activity that uses network ...

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ICS, SCADA, spoofing, tunneling, VPN

Guest Post – How To Protect Yours And Your Family’s Online Privacy And Security

A guest post from frequent contributor Siege Media.

Aside from the fact that your grandma is complaining about her shrinking internet, the internet is growing at a pace that’s pretty hard to even imagine–approximately 576,000 new websites per day, with each site being a potential ...

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JUL

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cybersecurity, passwords, privacy

Internet

Sunday Funnies – Passwords

The security thing we love to hate.

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JUL

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Friday Phish Fry

Phishing Email Alerts

Catch of the Day: Wells Fargo Identity Theft Phish – A trifecta – bank account, personal information, and a credit card. On the Dark Web this is called a Fullz.

Chef’s Special: Phishing attacks impersonate QuickBooks invoices ahead of July 15 tax deadline

Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources ...

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JUN

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email, Friday Phish Fry, passwords, Phishing, social engineering