I have a saying that I like to think I made up – “when you cut corners the corners cut back.” This picture illustrates the concept perfectly. From Pinterest.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Symantec SSL Certificates No Longer Secure
If you have a Symantec certificate on your HTTPS website, Chrome 70 and Firefox 63 will both be disowning any web certificates signed by Symantec. From this month forward, anyone with Chrome or Firefox who browses to a web page “secured” with a Symantec certificate will see an unequivocal warning insisting ...
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A guest post by Joey Pepka of Peptronics
There’s no doubt that technology is the driving force behind most businesses. We use our computers, smart phones and tablets the moment we wake up and for many, it’s the last thing we do before we go to bed.
Are you too dependent on technology?
Do you “shut down” ...
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The Internet Archive is an organization whose self-proclaimed task is to save a copy of everything on the Internet – forever. If you want to see what a website looked like and the content it contained at a certain point in historical time, you can use the Wayback Machine to find it. The Internet Archive is currently adding 4 petabytes (4 million gigabytes) per year to its treasure trove.
The Internet ...
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Today we are featuring a guest column written by Jann Chambers at UK Web Host Review.
If there is one thing that all website owners today need to be concerned about it is website security. This is especially the case if you take online payments for your products and services.
You only need to do a quick search online and you will ...
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From Pinterest –
The only thing I would add – Once you learn how to make money on your own, you will never need another job. When you own the source of your income you are truly free. Become an entrepreneur. Find something you love to do, that you would happily do for free, and that other people ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
MS-ISAC Releases Advisory on PHP Vulnerabilities
10/12/2018 06:37 PM EDT Original release date: October 12, 2018
The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has released an advisory on multiple Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Continue Reading →
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A guest post from Visual.ly. Click on the infographic for a larger, easier to read image.
From Visually.
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So you think you want to be a cybersecurity professional? Or maybe you know (or are) a middle school (that’s right, start ’em young), high school, or college student who is looking at cybersec as a career path. What personality characteristics would you need to be successful? What drives, motivates, and challenges a cybersecurity professional? Just what kind of wingnut ...
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If you use a password manager app on your smartphone, it may be vulnerable to package name spoofing, which would allow the password manager’s autofill feature to enter your login credentials on a spoofed web form. This vulnerability applies to popular apps from LastPass, Dashlane, Keeper, and 1Password.
I have been an advocate for password managers. They are part of the solution to ...
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