WyzGuys Tech Talk

So the Rosetta spacecraft has successfully mated with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (aka ChugGer).  Well except for the part where the lander is in a shadow and the solar panels are not getting enough light to charge the battery.  Oopsy!  One of the many interesting new things we are learning is that this particular comet is “singing.”  And they said “in space no one can here you scream.”  I guess not.  Anyway, drift ...

Cybercriminals have lots of ways to exploit their victims, but the single most effect method to gain initial entry remains the phishing email.  If you want to protect yourself from these sorts of exploits you need to know what they look like and what happens if they trick you into responding.  Let’s take a look at a scenario where the bad guys are trying to get your online banking credentials.

• Step 1:  Cybercriminals will send out a realistic looking but fake ...

“A recently released report from computing giant IBM attributes some 95% of IT security breaches to human error and that over 75% of attacks are targeted at just five industries, proving when it comes to security, people are the real problem”

This just proves once again that when it comes to cybersecurity, training and education for your employees is going to provide a bigger return on investment than anything else you can do.  Most attacks start as email or ...

If you  are using Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or any flavor of Microsoft mail (Outlook.com, MSN, Hotmail, etc.) there are additional steps you should take to ensure that your email is not only secure, but that in the event your email account is hijacked and taken over by bad actors on the web, that you can recover it with a minimum of inconvenience.  Here are the steps:

1. Create a ...

There has been a bit of a dust up on the Internet over a video from Fox News between journalist Bret Baier and security consultant Gary Miliefsky, SnoopWall CEO.  In the interview Gary claims that the top ten smartphone flashlight apps are collecting information on the user and sending it to foreign countries such as India, Russia, and China.  He states that this information is probably being used to mount cyber-attacks against American assets.  interestingly enough his ...