There are many online accounts that would be bad to lose control of, such as your Amazon, eBay, PayPal, or bank account. But by the far the worst account to lose is your email account. If I can trick you into giving me your email user ID and password, by using a phishing email, or phone pretext call, I will be in. I can start off by simply observing, as I read your emails, ...
This post is a shout out to my peers in the cybersecurity profession, and especially those who would like to join us. I found these sites in two separate posts on Checkmarx blog. I have not had an opportunity to try them all out, but they are on my to do list. Most of these sites involve compromising intentionally vulnerable web ...
Baby is cold outside. The Vikings muffed it again. We need some humor to brighten our lives. Here you are:
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Quick answer: Yes it can! A recent article in Bloomberg goes deeply into this subject, and reveals the experiences of a white hat hacker named Billy Rios. Billy and many others in the profession had been hired by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota in 2013 to try to hack all the medical devices in the hospital that were connected to the network. ...
American students are not learning how to write computer code, at least not at the rate that is typical in other countries such as India and China. This is extremely bad news for the U.S. economy over the long term; we are not teaching enough computer coders to fill existing jobs, much less future jobs. And more to the point, this is where ...
Passwords – Is mine strong enough? How do I know? Every time I write a password article I feel as if this subject has already been done to death by me and others. But I always get more positive feedback on this subject than others I consider more interesting, so we offer the following suggestions:
From Pinterest. Really like the last panel. Similar to an older Star Trek post.
At the November meeting of Penguins Unbound, the local Linux Users Group, I was introduced to a group of people from CryptoPartyMN. These guys and gals are serious about anonymity on the web. On of the resources they discussed was a great website called Security in a Box. If you would like to learn how to be more secure in your online communications, this is certainly ...
I am getting posts from the FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and received this interesting warning on November 18th of last year. This warning was sent to law enforcement and public officials, but if you have come to the point in your life were you are feeling a bit overexposed on the Internet, these tips can help you too.
For some of us, a few of these suggestions ...
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Happy New Year! This week we are going to investigate ways that we can recover some of our personal privacy and enhance the our security our online lives.
Let’s face it, many of us have been running amok on the Internet, busily sharing all sorts of personal information on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, and who knows where else. Every time we buy something ...
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