Great idea for a Halloween costume! From Smithsonian and YouTube
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
The Two Million Dollar Heist
By Richard Branson – Virgin CEO tells how he was almost duped out of $5 Million, and how a close friend of his lost $2 million to scammers.
International Internet Day
Late at night on October 29, 1969, today celebrated ...
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Somebody wants to punch our lights out – literally turn off the electric power grid. Who would want to do this? Russia? North Korea? Cybersecurity firm Symantec has attributed this attack to a group they have identified as the Dragonfly Group, who may have been responsible for the attack on the Ukrainian electric grid in 2015 and ...
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Somebody wants to punch our lights out – literally turn off the electric power grid. Who would want to do this? Who has the capability? Is it the Russians, who have already demonstrated this attack two years ago in the Ukraine? Or the North Koreans, who have both motive and the cyber army to carry it off? Cybersecurity firm Symantec has ...
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At the end of September, the Senate passed the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act for Small Business. This is an effort to help small businesses deal with the technical aspects and costs associated with creating a cybersecurity program and protecting their digital assets from attack or compromise. The Act instructs NIST to create a plan for small businesses that is based on the NIST ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
70k minimum wage has been a profound success and failure – two years later
Tech company Gravity Payments instituted a $70 K minimum wage two years ago. It has long been my personal contention that the drop in real starting wages (against inflation) coupled with ...
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AOL Instant Messenger is dead. Well, not quite yet, but it will be on December 15. AOL and Yahoo have been merged together as Oath in their respective mega-mergers with Verizon. As a product offering AIM had to go.
In the 90’s, AOL made the Internet popular and approachable by the masses. It wasn’t the first public service, but it was everywhere, flooding ...
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Three billion (3,000,000,000) is the current tally of breached user IDs, passwords, and customer account information at Yahoo. This is most assuredly all of the user account information they were holding about their customers. If you were or are a Yahoo account holder, just assume your information is among the lost.
Earlier we reported that this breach may have been less significant because ...
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Email account hijacking is a serious, growing problem. It has become the number one way that cyber-criminals make money. What makes it so insidious is the ease with which the hijacker can impersonate the owner of the email account.
What this means to you is this – that email you got from your boss, a close friend, a coworker, a supplier or customer ...
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