Ever feel like there should be a 12-step program for your cybersecurity career? “Hello, I’m Bob and I’m a recovering cybersecurity professional.” Doing the same old “defense in depth” stuff and still the barbarians get onto your network and wreak havoc. Remember the definition of insanity? “Doing the same thing and expecting different results.” As with any 12-step program, the first step would ...
Every year about this time, cyber-criminal groups start to ramp up for the annual income tax fraud season. If you would prefer to receive your own tax refund, as opposed to letting some scam artist get it instead, the basic solution is to file your returns as early as possible. Here are some things to be watching for.
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the singularity from Dilbert.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.It can be overwhelming to learn you’ve been a victim of identity theft. As in your case, crimes involving identity theft and credit fraud are often committed online.
There are other options for photo ...
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One of the worst things that can happen to you online is when someone hijacks one of your social network accounts. When unauthorized bad-actors get your Facebook or Twitter password, they can use your account to impersonate you, and to send all sorts of friend requests, share requests, spam, and posts with click-bait links that can lead your friends to web pages that will steal their information or silently download ...
A new phishing campaign by the Iranian state-sponsored group known as “Charming Kitten” is using new tactics to trick users out of their passwords and both SMS and app generated two-factor codes. Charming Kitten is tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. This campaign has been ongoing since October 2018. Information on this attack was released on December 18, 2018 by Certfa Lab.
Targets of these attacks are high-ranking individuals in the ...
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I have written before about how our smartphones are ratting out our location, using GPS and even just cell tower location information. The New York Times recently published a story that followed a woman throughout her day and discovered that her location was collected over 8000 in a single day. From the location database they purchased from a location data broker, they ...
From the Smithsonian. Video on CNN
Back in July, eight-year-old Saga Vanecek was playing in a lake near her family’s summer home in Sweden. She reached into the water and pulled out what she thought was a stick—but quickly realized that it was something far more special.
“Daddy, I found a sword!” she cried, according to Catherine Edwards of the Local Sweden.
Saga’s family subsequently alerted the Jönköpings Läns Museum to the discovery, and experts there have ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.No, none of us can “bypass” Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms by copy-pasting our way past them. I have friends and relatives that are trying to use this by it is fake.
Adobe has patched two critical flaws ...
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WordPress version 5 was released a month ago on December 6. There have already been some minor upgrades to fix some security issues. If your WordPress site is running any version of WordPress 4, you probably need to upgrade.
Before you upgrade your WordPress site to version 5, you need to take a look at the new page editor, code named “Gutenberg.” If ...
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