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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Much of this content is from Bruce Schneier

We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both user identity and ...

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Friday Phish Fry

Phishing Email Alerts

Catch of the Day: Morse Code Attack

Chef’s Special: IONOS Phish

Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.

I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.

My intention is to provide a warning, examples ...

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Guest Post – Why Not Securing Your Website Will Cost You Traffic in 2021

By Hristina Nikolovska

With another core update scheduled for May this year, webmasters are scrambling to get their websites ready. They’re working furiously to ensure that their sites measure up in terms of the core web vitals (CWV) that Google is targeting this year.

Google’s new CWV are geared toward improving the customer ...

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Sunday Funnies – Cybersecurity Awareness

Some additional cybersecurity issues to worry about from my Pinterest Feed.

Where the heck did he find a pay phone?

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

The technically complex landing marks the fifth successful U.S. bid to reach the Martian surface

Its Not Just SolarWinds: France Reveals Three-Year Long Supply Chain Attack

News of the SolarWinds data breach, where its software management updates were hacked, rocked the cyber world. And now comes news ...

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cybersecurity, cyberwar, insider threat, News and politics, social engineering, Software vulnerability, Weekend Update

Mars, MIST PF, NIST RMF, NIST-CSF, Orion, Perseverance, SolarWinds

Friday Phish Fry

Phishing Email Alerts

Catch of the Day: Phishing Dud

Chef’s Special: Phishing for Teachers

Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.

I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.

My intention is to provide a warning, examples ...

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Guest Post – 6 Ways to Stay Secure in the Cloud

For a long time, “the public cloud,” was a foreign concept many businesses shied away from because of security concerns. In recent years, this has steadily changed. Many reliable and trustworthy third-party cloud vendors have entered the market and, with this competition, the market has matured.

While the concept of the cloud is far more accepted today with increased ...

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Be Alert to Carjacking

Could you become the victim of a carjacking? Usually when I am discussing hijacking, it is in the context of email hijacking, web account hijacking, or web server hijacking, but I believe this is important to share in it’s entirety. This post by the Ramey County (Minnesota) Sherriff’s Department is if of important information about the procedures, tactics, and techniques of carjacking ...