A professional associate of mine alerted me to the Bump Card. The fundamental concept seems to make sense; replace the business card with a phone app that allows you to exchange professional information including links to your web site, or even a special purpose web page. This exchange happens over your near-field communications (NFC) radio in your phone. This can be phone-to-phone, ...
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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Phishing Email AlertsCatch of the Day: Google Privacy Check-up
Chef’s Special: Blocked Message WyzMail Spoofing 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 provide a ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A great post and a must read by Gavin Ashton. If you are tasked with Identity and Access Management, you at least have to read the Do the Basics section at the end of the article.
Maersk is the world’s largest integrated shipping and container logistics company. I was ...
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From Safety.com. Today’s kids are digital natives, and so are many parents. But tech savvy doesn’t always translate into increased safety online. We asked cybersecurity experts for the best and most practical internet safety tips for kids, teens and parents.
Nowadays, kids are spending more time online. ...
Catch of the Day – Donald Trump and Mike Pence phishing emails. Beware these official-looking “government” emails.
Chef’s Special – LogMeIn credential harvesting 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 ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Usually when I am talking about sanitizing a computer, I am talking about irreversibly deleting all the personal data. If you work on a computer, especially a SHARED COMPUTER, the keyboard and mouse needs to be sanitized periodically. A keyboard can have more germs than a toilet seat, and ...
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Is there a way to maintain privacy online, and defeat tracking without resorting to extreme measures? We have written articles recently about the most private browsers, but using them requires changing habits and abandoning web browsers that you are already familiar with.
I came across this graphic on Pinterest, and thought it was worth sharing. It shows some ...
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Here is another guest post offered by Josh Wardini, which first appeared in DataProt.
Yesterday was Data Privacy Day. We live in highly connected and insecure times where our personal information is harvested and sold like a crop. Where our every move in the physical world is tracked by GPS in our phones and automobiles. ...
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Keeping your information private is nearly impossible these days. The Internet has turned us all into virtual blabbermouths oversharing everything. And what we aren’t already sharing with wild abandon is being harvested, parsed, analyzed, stored in endless databases, and sold by big Internet companies. Then that information is stolen by cyber-criminals and sold on the Dark Web.
The task of keeping our information private seems impossible, but there still are actions ...
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