WordPress has become an incredibly popular web design platform, and currently has about a 25% share of all web sites on the Internet. As an open-source software product that is free to download and use, with a great support and documentation through WordPress.org, and a huge, international development community providing an endless array of themes, plug-ins and widgets, it is easy ...
My apologies to my regular readers. Today one of my posts left the oven before it was completely baked. If the encryption topic is of interest to you, please stay tuned, we will be releasing that post once again, after it is finished.
If you are running a Linux server or Linux desktop in your environment, you need to consider the following security strategies. Linux users suffer in some cases from the popular delusions of invulnerability that Apple users are prone to, and for some of the same reasons. Such as, most malware only runs on Windows so why should I care? Or, Linus is such a small target with less than 2% ...
I usually go off-topic on Sunday, but every now and again something funny happens in the world of cybersecurity. According to Sophos, some clever wag, possibly a disgruntled former employee of the parking meter company, possibly an outside hacker with a political ax to grind, was able to breach the computer system that controlled the parking meters in Meaux, a small town outside of Paris, and place a message insulting the town’s mayor at the bottom of the ...
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As you have already heard, cyber-thieves from Russia have compromised the IRS Get Transcript website and were able to get records of previous years’ tax filings in order to file fraudulent returns and collect refunds. What was special about this heist is that the IRS servers were not breached directly, but that the attackers were able to use data gathered elsewhere, from lists of identity information bought on ...
The new Ponemon Institute 2015 Cost of Data Breach report was released recently. This report looks at the costs of 2015 large enterprise class data breaches, but there are some salient pieces of information for small business owners to consider when formulating their cyber security risk management plans.
The average cost per record lost in a data breach increased from $201 in 2014 to $217 in 2015. Different sorts of records had different costs associated to them. For instance, more detailed ...
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One of the relatively easy ways to create longer, stronger, more complex, and totally unique passwords for all your online accounts is to use a password manager service. Some of the more popular ones include RoboForm, KeePass, and LastPass. These services create unique bits of gibberish for each site, and automatically apply them to ...
The recent break of the Office of Personnel Managment has been all over the news, but we haven’t written about it because we like to focus on issues our clients are facing that they can actually do something about. But if you currently have or ever received a government security clearance, this issue affects you. This is going to prove to be one of the most serious identity theft operations of all time. The information acquired by the attackers was impressive ...
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We usually limit our discussion in this blog to cybersecurity articles that would be of interest to average users, and this is not really one of those topics. But because the exploit is getting some press, and the exploit name, “venom,” is attention grabbing, we thought we would discuss it here.
The Venom exploit only matters to those of us who are using virtual machines. A virtual machine is created using ...
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