A professional associate of mine alerted me to the Bump Card. The fundamental concept seems to make sense; replace the business card with a phone app that allows you to exchange professional information including links to your web site, or even a special purpose web page. This exchange happens over your near-field communications (NFC) radio in your phone. This can be phone-to-phone, ...
This is from the Smithsonian. Click through for the full article.
The “lost” apples will help restore genetic, culinary diversity to a crop North America once produced in astonishing variety. I think that preserving heritage varieties of anything is important. We have become, as a species, way too dependent on food mono-cultures, that in the event of a blight or plant disease would result in mass ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.This week a lot of content from Schneier on Security.
Earlier this month, we learned that someone is disrupting the TrickBot botnet network. Read full story.
Catch of the Day: Roundcube Version Upgrade Phish
Chef’s Special: IONOS Blocked Email 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.
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The election cycle is finally over, or is it? If you are a conservative or Republican, perhaps you have come to the conclusion that the press, the media, and especially social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter suppressed the story from the political right and actively promoted the tory from the political left. Supposedly, these are organs ...
What if you could eliminate 95% of cybersecurity exploits by doing one thing better? Would you do it? Social Engineering in its many forms accounts for 95% to 99% of common exploits that cybercriminals use to gain initial access to your information assets. There are two simple security controls that you can put in place that would virtually eliminate the threats caused by social engineering.
Social engineering is the use of ...
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This is from an older post from McSweeny’s. We have all set up a number of these “secret security questions” like the ones one the left, and the appropriate answer. These questions are generally used for password ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Microsoft just released an update that includes over 100 fixes and a Zero-Day patch. The Zero Day must be a doozy, my old, out-of-support Windows 7 machine was updated too. Run your updates!
Catch of the Day: Action Required Password Expired Phish
Chef’s Special: Google Drive Alert 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 ...
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Getting certified in an information technology, networking, cybersecurity, or other professional credential is hard work. Nobody wants to have to do them over. Hopefully you are earning the Continuing Education Units (CEU or CPE) you need to maintain your certification status. Industry certifications are typically good for three years. To keep them in force, every certificate you achieve comes with continuing education ...