Cybersecurity Pros Train Free at Cybrary

cybraryInformation technology certification has always been a daunting proposition.  The books and study materials are expensive, and classroom training is expensive, and the exams themselves are not cheap either.  Couple these costs with the time it takes to study, prepared, and test, time that can’t be billed to a client, and therefore hits your bottom line.

Finally, some good news for cybersecurity professionals, and those that would like to be: ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, training

Windows 10 Security Upgrades: Hello, Passport, FIDO

Windows10HelloWindows 10 will be featuring a built in security feature called Hello, as well as Passport, for online security, and is supporting the FIDO Alliance as well.  Hello will use fingerprint, facial recognition or iris scanning to authenticate you to your computer, and from there, authenticate you to your domain or workgroup resources.  The facial recognition camera ...

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authentication, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, passwords, Windows 10

7 Cybersecurity Travel Tips

As we get into the summer travel season, here are a few recommendations to help you security your smartphones, tablets, and laptops.  Let’s remember that even short trips from home to the coffee shop or library can expose you and your devices to risks.

Public WiFi

wirelessWin7-1Wireless access points represent a point of entry when you are away from home.  Most coffee houses and restaurants offering public wireless Internet do so using ...

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Nanny Cam Takeover

I’ve been hearing stories about baby cams, nanny cams, laptop cams, computer cams, and inexpensive home security cameras that have been hijacked due to poor or non-existent security setting, and set up for viewing on the camera feed aggregation site www.insecam.org.  These feeds are not just nurseries, but bedrooms, living rooms, and a variety of exterior locations.  These feds also display GPS coordinates, which makes it trivial to find the exact location of the feed source.  See an ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, surveillance

Samsung Testing Iris Recognition

As the age of password authentication falls to newer and faster password cracking hardware, software, and list building tools, technologists have been looking at other authentication methods.  Many of these techniques we have covered here: two-factor authentication (2FA), secure key, smartphone authentication apps, Google’s USB security dongle, fingerprint readers, and other biometrics.

Recently, Samsung, together with SRI, have started working on an iris recognition authentication methodology called IOM or “Iris On the Move.”  The human iris, the colored part of the eye, ...

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Dyre Wolf Banking Malware Poses Threat To Your Bank Balance

Modern cyber criminals are using more sophisticated blended attacks to achieve some pretty spectacular monetary hauls.  The Dyre Wolf malware exploits is currently be combined with a spear-phishing approach, a telephone based social engineering middle, and a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the back end to access corporate bank accounts and wire transfer large sums of money.  Originally uncovered by IBM’s security team in 2014, this exploit had netted on cyber-crime group over $1 million dollars.  The IBM ...

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Ransomware Kidnapped Your Files – Should You Pay The Ransom?

CryptoLocker and CryptoWall are largely defunct now, but there are new strains of encryption malware at large on the Internet.  If you fall victim to any of the new ransomware exploits such as Teslacrypt or Ophionlocker, there is bad news, and there is OK news, and there may be good news.

The bad news is that once the encryption malware has finished encrypting all of your personal files in the Documents, Pictures, Music, and Video folders and other stuff in your User ...

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