Since 2013, cyber-criminal gangs working from the Middle East, Africa, and eastern Europe have scammed businesses out of $1.2 billion dollars worldwide, with over 700 US businesses reporting $747 million in losses to this exploit. In 2015 alone there has been a 270% increase in losses to this scam. On August 28th, the FBI warned business owners and manager to be on guard ...
Now that football season has started, there will be a lot of discussion about why great defenses don’t win football games. Defense is not enough in the realm of cybersecurity, either. I recently attended a webinar put on by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) featuring Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) that discussed this concept as it applied to the DevSecOps (or SecDevOps) or the secure development of web applications. It is not enough to write code that works, it also ...
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This is from Computerworld Shark Tank, which I read daily. These are funny stories about computer users from an IT perspective. Normally I have not shared these funny stories with my readers because this is a bit of IT “inside baseball.” Plus you might just recognize yourself in the story, and be offended, which I would like to avoid. But this one is too good not to share. ...
Today is the 14th anniversary of a day that I will never forget. I was driving home from dropping my son off at school, and listening to the radio when they started reporting that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I made it home in time to see the second plane crash into the second tower on television. Still gives me chills as I write this.
Coincidentally, two ...
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Seems like everybody wants to run for President this year. Now John McAfee has entered the race. Yes the same McAfee that founded the McAfee security software company. Not saying he is my candidate, but this statement of his sums up exactly what is wrong with the NSA spying on everybody in order to save us for terrorists.
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I have been getting a lot of calls about this one, and I finally was able to get a screen print of the message. When this happens to you – DO NOT CALL the provided number. You will end up allowing them to connect remotely and then they will convince you to spend $300 to fix the problem. You do not really have a problem, until you make the call. To fix this, read to the bottom.
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack happens when a malicious group in possession of a large botnet starts sending an never-ending stream of connection requests and other types of traffic in order to overwhelm your web server, ecommerce operations, or other web connect assest. Often the motive for these attacks are to extort money from the targeted victim, but sometimes these attacks may be social or politically motivated as ...
On of the banes of the Internet for a small business is getting a single negative review that makes your otherwise great business look bad. I’ve always told my clients to face it head on; leave the review up, but provide a backstory about what you did to resolve the issue. If someone didn’t like your stuff, and complain online, you need to let everyone know you refunded their money, or whatever you did to try and recover for this ...
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Kaspersky is a security software company with a pretty good reputation. Their products usually score in the top five in any independent malware detection and removal test. Of course, they are a company that is headquartered in Russia, which might just make you a little nervous.
But many high quality security software companies are located in places like Finland (F-Secure), Czech Republic (AVG), The UK (Sophos), and Spain (Panda). And the Unites ...
Continue Reading →As a side note to my day today, for the last 24 hours or so someone, or several someones, have been attempting to brute force the login credential for this web site. Thanks to my web site security, I am aware of the attempts, and it appears that the security applications are doing a great job of preventing an intrusion. Besides the automated password cracking attempt, there have been SQL injection attempts blocked, spam comments blocked, and even a DDoS attack thwarted.
Some of ...
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