Big Ben has been keeping time since May 31, 1859 and is accurate to within 2 seconds per week. This YouTube video shows how they keep Big Ben on time. More on Wikipedia. Thanks to my Uncle Ron for this piece.
I read an interesting article in the New York Times earlier this month, about how the United States is using cyber-warfare tactics against North Korea to slow the development of an inter-continental ballistic missile that can reach the United States. The effective range maps were startling. (see below)
It seems that Trump has inherited a cyber war program from the Obama administration that was started 3 years ago and targeted the North Korean missile development program. Since that time, there ...
Continue Reading →APR
What if there was a new phishing scam that had an open rate of 90%. That’s right, this phishing email is so believable, 90 out of 100 recipients open the the attachment or click on the link without a second thought.
These attacks begin with the scammer researching the target victim. These targets usually work at companies where there is a lot of air ...
Continue Reading →APR
We have discussed the dangers to what NIST identifies as Critical Infrastructure that exists because SCADA and other industrial control systems are designed to be run on “air-gapped” networks that are not connected to the public Internet. Unfortunately, many of these systems are being connected to the Internet, if only in a tangential way.
The German security firm OpenSource Security recently found hard ...
Continue Reading →APR
Russian cyber-criminals are hard to arrest, because there is no extradition treaty between the US and Russia. The Russian government allows them to prosper as long as they do not attack anything in Russia. The Russian government also contracts with these criminal groups when they need some state sponsored hacking done, a la Grizzly Steppe. In Russia, these guys are considered to be just very successful business men. They have ...
APR
I use LastPass to manage all my passwords, and recommend LastPass to my clients and followers. Often, when I am talking about storing passwords in the cloud, as LastPass does, I get concerned questions about the safety of storing your digital “keys” online. What happens if LastPass is breached?
Well, the bad news is that they were breached around June 15, 2015. I remember getting the email alert from them at the ...
Continue Reading →APR
I will also be speaking at this event, also sponsored by First State Bank and Trust. This will be at the Stillwater Public Library, 224 Third St No, Stillwater, MN 55082, from Thursday May 4, 2017, from 8:00 am to 9:15 am.
Here is the EventBrite link.
Safeguard Your Business From Cyber-Crime
Up to 95% of network intrusions are invited by ...
Continue Reading →APR
I will be the featured speaker at an event sponsored by First State Bank and Trust of Bayport, MN. The date is Tuesday May 23rd, 2017 from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm. The location is Phipps Center For the Arts,109 Locust Street, Hudson, WI 54016
Here is the EventBrite link
Email Security: Resist That Click
Think you know how to recognize phishing emails? ...
Continue Reading →APR
