WyzGuys Cybersecurity

You Are the Tip of the Spear

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this week’s theme is Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everyone’s Business.

Has anyone from your company’s IT department asked you to join the cybersecurity staff? No? Well consider yourself invited.

Cybersecurity has become an critically important part of computer and network operations, but frankly, no company can afford to hire all the information security professionals that it needs. And that is if they can find anyone to ...

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Sunday Funnies: What’s Wrong With IoT

We have complained about the total lack of security and uncessary data gathering by smart devices for a while. Why does a light bulb need to know my location? It’s great when these tech-nerd issues show up in the mainstream media. A big thanks to Sherman’s Lagoon.

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Identity Theft, Internet of Things, Sunday Funnies

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

BlueBorne Bluetooth Vulnerabilities

09/12/2017 05:26 PM EDT Original release date: September 12, 2017

US-CERT is aware of a collection of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, known as BlueBorne, potentially affecting millions of unpatched mobile phones, computers, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A remote attacker could exploit several of these vulnerabilities to take ...

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Android, Apple, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Web Design, Weekend Update, WordPress

New Phishing Scam Uses FBI and IRS Logos

There is a new twist on an old tax scam appearing in email inboxes recently. The new phishing exploit uses both IRS and FBI emblems to scare recipients into provide personal information on a downloadable questionnaire. You can read the official warning here.

I like to remind people that the IRS only communicates with taxpayers by postal mail. Sometimes they might send a US Marshal. And the FBI certainly would not be sending an email when they can ...

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Security Issue With CCleaner

Piriform’s CCleaner is a popular computer cleaning and optimizing product that many people use. I have my doubts about the real effectiveness of these utilities, but many of my clients swear by it. I have used CCleaner myself several times as one of the tools I used to clean up a malware infection.

Recently, the CCleaner software code was modified to include a malicious backdoor. This warning was published earlier in ...

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Computers and Internet, crapware, cybersecurity, malware, Security, Software vulnerability, Trojan

The Weakest Link In Cybersecurity is in Your Mirror

That’s right, it’s still you. Sorry.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this week’s theme is Simple Steps to Online Safety.

The toughest part of cybersecurity is securing the human mind, emotions, behaviors, and responses from the making a decision or taking an action that will open the door for a cyber-attacker. The reality is that it is much easier to secure systems than humans. And unfortunately, humans have been given ...

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Android, Apple, authentication, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, passwords, Phishing, Security, smartphones, social engineering

Sunday Funnies: Why Life Is So Hard

Again – from Pinterest

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month which is an annual campaign to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. The Internet touches almost all aspects of everyone’s daily life, whether we realize it ...

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BlueBorne Bluetooth Hijacker – What Do We Know?

Cybersecurity researchers at Armis Labs have released information about a new attack vector called BlueBorne. This exploit has the potential to put millions of devices running Windows, Linux, Android or iOS operating systems at risk.

This exploit allows attackers to connect over the Bluetooth radio system with having to first pair the two Bluetooth enabled devices. Once installed, the attacker has full control ...

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D-Link Does Bad Security Again

A security research found 10 “critical” security flaws in a popular D-Link wireless router. This is not the first time that poor security has painted this company with the ugly stick. They have previously been sued by the Federal Trade Commission, and we have reported about their deficiencies in this blog.