Sunday Funnies – Fuse Replacement Guide

Found this on Pinterest.  My favorite is the rifle bullet (audio-visual auto alert).  I read a story in the Darwin Awards about a guy who used a 22 bullet as a replacement for an automotive fuse.  When it fired it shot him in the testicles.  The Darwin Awards are given to men and the occasional woman who does something stupid that results in them leaving the available gene pool, thereby improving the ...

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Guest Post – Essential Cybersecurity Facts for Business Owners – Part 2

Today’s post was provided by The Broadband Search.  This is the conclusion of the article that was published Wednesday.

Where, When, and How

While your small business is a likely target, how do these attacks occur and what targets are used specifically? What are the more precise factors involved and what types of attacks might you expect? Once you know these facts, you can devote your time and energy to meet cyberattacks head-on:

  • Mobile malware is a growing threat, ...
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Guest Post – Essential Cybersecurity Facts for Business Owners – Part 1

Today’s post was provided by The Broadband Search.

The worldwide cybersecurity market is expected to reach $167 billion in 2019, and it is only going to grow larger from there, given the number of attacks and the amount of wealth stored online. The line between physical and digital is being blurred more, and criminals are following the money. And often enough, the trail leads to businesses just like yours.

To put the level of ...

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“Sandworm” Is The True Story About Russian Cyberwarfare

Last month I read the book Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers, by Andy Greenberg, senior writer for Wired magazine.  If you want to understand how cyber-war has changed the face of military operations in the 21st century, this book explains everything.  This book has put the threat ...

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Weekend Update

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


Ransomware attack forces 2-day shutdown of natural gas pipeline

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday said that an infection by an unidentified ransomware strain forced the shutdown of a natural-gas pipeline for two days.


Crypto AG Fallout: Cyber Rivals Call the U.S. ...

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Why the Bruhaha over the Corp.com Domain?

The Corp.com domain is for sale, and depending on who ends up owning it, this could be catastrophic for companies that use Windows domains and Active Directory.  It basically is Microsoft’s fault (of course), except it is not.  The problem is that many admins who were setting up Active Directory domains for their company followed the directions a little too exactly.  In ...

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Who Guards the Guardians?

Insider threats, the risks and dangers caused by malicious or careless acts performed by your own employees, contractors, and trusted vendors is perhaps the most difficult cyber attack to detect and defend.  What happens when a member of your own IT department turns to the dark side?

Between 2015 and 2019, IT executive Hicham Kabbaj scammed his employer out of $6 million dollars for servers, other products, and installation services by ...

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