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Weekend Update

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

The Ransomware Victim that Hacked Back and Got the Keys to the Kingdom

The idea of hacking back against those who hack you has been called a lot of things. The terms “goofy idea” and “illegal” are some we’ve heard. But for a ransomware victim in Germany, you can add the words “sweet revenge.” And not just ...

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cybersecurity, Dark Web, encryption, multi-factor authentication, ransomware, training, Weekend Update

election fraud

Own an E-Commerce Business? Here’s How to Secure Customer Data

A guest post from From Siege Media

Data breaches are more or less becoming commonplace. In the last several years, companies the likes of Under Armour, Home Depot, Equifax, and even Target have fallen victim to ruthless cyber-attacks, resulting in the loss of profit, reputation, and customers.

This obviously has a huge affect ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, encryption, Web Design, WordPress

Dealing With The Insider Threat

As cybersecurity professionals, we spend a lot of time and effort keeping outsiders off our network, and out of our servers and information repositories. The good news is that today’s defensive solutions work pretty well, and we are largely successful defending threats from outsider the network perimeter.

Insider threats are a bigger concern. There have been several high profile insider ...

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cybersecurity, insider threat

International Internet Day

October 29 is International Internet Day. For better or worse, the creation of the Internet has changed everything. It created new ways to communicate, provided an open platform for free speech and the free exchange of ideas. It created a new and level playing field where tiny Davids could successfully complete with ...

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Computers and Internet

Sunday Funnies – The Addams Family History

One of my favorite TV shows of all time. Helped me to learn that all families are odd, or at least my family wasn’t the only one. Of course there is a new animated film about to be released. Did you know they were first seen in a 1938 New Yorker cartoon? From the Smithsonian, and Dan’s Media Digest. If you are a fan, read both articles.

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Weekend Update

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

Shock Treatment: First Disruptive Cyber Attack Hits the U.S. Power Grid

Firewalls crashing, communications lost, and the realization that this was not a technology failure of the U.S. power grid. It was a first-of-its-kind cyber-attack that reveals the risks of our increasingly connected infrastructure. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) revealed details of the new ...

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OCT

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cybersecurity, encryption, Google, ransomware

DNS, electric grid, electric utilities, NCSAM, VPN

Robocalls At All-Time High – Is There Any Relief?

I hate robocalls. I got rid on my land line phone because the ONLY people who called me on it were robocallers, fraudsters, and political campaigns (more fraudsters?). Now up to 80% of my cellular phone calls are robocalls. If it seems that there are more robocalls then ever, this is not an illusion. Robocalls have increased 46% from 2017 to 2018, ...

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account hijacking, Android, Apple, cybersecurity, social engineering

robocalls

Password Managers Look For Breached Passwords

Creating and remembering strong (long) passwords is a chore, and leads to poor security practices such as shorter passwords, reuse of passwords, and writing down passwords in a password list or book that could be stolen. The best way to create strong passwords and store them for use is a password manager.

The easiest password managers are found in popular web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Safari uses the ...

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authentication, passwords

password manager

How To Defend Against Crypto-Ransomware Attacks

The first week of October was the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) but brought us news of new crypto-ransomware attacks against hospital systems in Alabama (USA), and Victoria, Austrailia. It appears that in both cases the hospital systems are wotking with federal cyber incident response teams to mitigate and recover, and ...