On Monday we started an investigation into the free dark web scan that is being offered by credit agency Experian. Again, this is NOT Equifax, who breached our information last year. This is a different credit agency.
When we ran the free scan on Experian, they found three results. But I knew there was more to find, because I had already ...
Continue Reading →I caught an ad on TV the other night that made me curious. Experian is offering a “free dark web report,” ostensibly to see if any of your personal data is for sale on the Dark Web. Well I don’t really need a test to tell me that. Since the Equifax breach, I am pretty sure all of us have information for ...
It was Isaac Newton’s 375th Birthday on Jan 4. Here’s a fun “fact.” Also, he really “invented” gravity in 1687. From Pinterest
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Nearly identical to last year’s list. Some people never learn. If you are using any of these passwords, please change them now!
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Since Equifax leaked credit and identity information on ALL of us last year, I have been in a foul mood about the clueless and technically inept C-level corporate executives who are responsible for these breaches. Throw the bums in jail!
Well, a law working its way through Congress may do just that. For the first time executives may be facing not just ritual termination, and shaming in the press, but actual ...
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Privileged accounts, typically administrator accounts, are the all powerful user accounts who can do anything on a computer, server, network, or domain. These are the top targets for cyber-criminals and other malicious hackers. And they generally are poorly managed. Here are some common mistakes we see when conduction security reviews for clients.
Email security company Mimecast recently released its Email Security Risk Assessment, and found that email account hijacking is the fastest growing threat vector. Also known as impersonation attacks, email account hijacking allows an attacker to impersonate the person whose account has been compromised. This is the vehicle used in wire transfer fraud, invoice fraud, and other financial frauds. Some of the statistics in the report were enlightening. ...
Want to sound smarter? Try slipping these words into a casual conversation. From Mental Floss by way of Smithsonian.
From the first person you greet in the morning to that earthy smell that permeates the air after it rains, the English language is full of very specific words. Here are 10 of them.
You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From Naked Security – Crypto Coins Robbed at Gunpoint.
Good old fashioned stick-ups still a possibility.
Fake support scams – where the crooks help you “remove” malware you don’t have – are still a ...
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On Wednesday we looked at IP blocking and geo-blocking as cybersecurity tactics. Today we finish our review of blocking techniques with sender blocking and domain blocking.
Many of us are familiar with sender blocking. Blocking an email sender, and adding them to our sender blacklist, is one of the ways that spam and phishing email filtering works. Modern spam filters also analyze content and ...
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