I live in the People’s Republic of Minnesota. Wasn’t born here, but grew up here. Not sure why I stay here. More taxes here than anywhere else. Then there are the behavioral issues, such as Minnesota Nice. From BuzzFeed through Pinterest
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.An very cool. detailed, and facinating look at how technology is changing and breaking the spy game from foreignpolicy.com. Worth the read.
The world of espionage is facing tremendous technological, political, legal, social, and commercial changes. The winners will be those who break the old rules of the ...
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There has been a stream of email alerts arriving at my inbox lately that warned of a variety of new phishing approaches that are using well-known brands (OneDrive and Office 365, FedEx and UPS), trusted sources (Department of Homeland Security, Gmail, Yahoo Mail), secure services (TLS certificates and HTTPS web sites) and curiosity (you received an encrypted message) to trick recipients into clicking a link that leads to a fake ...
If you think that the US government called off the new war with Iran, you are mistaken. President Trump cancelled the air strikes due to the potential loss of civilian lives, but cyber war options were in play, and is being aggressively waged by both sides.
President Trump called for a cyber attack against Iranian missile control systems on June 20th. These attacks ...
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Here is another intriguing guest post by Melisa Marzett.
This question was raised long time ago in old science-fiction films. Though those depictions were rather primitive, people started asking questions, for example, what else are they capable of, and how long will it take to develop such intelligence. In these films, the only thing these machines want is to ...
Continue Reading →Every now and again a guy will win the argument. It should be properly memorialized – like this from Pinterest.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Mozilla has fixed a critical zero-day bug in the latest point releases of the Firefox web browser.
Original release date: June 07, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a reminder urging consumers to look out for two new ...
Continue Reading →As cyber security and information technology professionals, and even as computer users, we find that we have to constantly be learning new things to stay current with the pace of technology. This often is an uncomfortable experience.
I recently saw a graphic in Pinterest from the website of personal coach Aurorasa Sima. I have posted it below.
The idea of someone tracking your whereabouts and eavesdropping on your conversations can be unsettling. Yet, more than 58,000 Google Android users had this happen to them. That’s because these individuals had stalkerware installed on their smartphones. Stalkerware is legal but often considered unethical. Find out what stalkerware is and how it can get on your smartphone.
Stalkerware is not limited to Android phones. It can be ...
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