I often get asked to speak to high school students about a career in information technology and cybersecurity. These engagements typically come from a relationship I have with Minnesota Junior Achievement. This spring my live presentation was done in by the pandemic, but I was able to create my presentation on Zoom, record it, and submit it to JA for inclusion on their You Tube channel.
I think it turned out pretty ...
Continue Reading →There are four numbering systems that are used in information technology, binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal. There are also known as Base 2 (numbers 0 and 1), Base 8 (numbers 0 through 7), Base 10 (numbers 0 through 9, and Base 16 (numbers 0-9 and characters a, b, c, d, e f.)
Here are a couple of riddles that you should be able to solve with the information I gave you.
Also, scroll down to see the awesome COVID-19 song by a ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Remeber Y2K? The COVID crisis has increased demand on old governmental systems and the call has gone out again for COBOL programmers.
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, from clients, or from reliable sources on the Internet.
You can read more about these sorts of scams at the following link. https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages.
You are going through your email, when suddenly forty new messages flood into your Inbox. These emails are all addressed to you, and they are coming by the dozens, and then hundreds, then even thousands. The emails are in a variety of different languages. They keep coming all day, and then the next day as well. Marking them as junk ...
Here we are stuck in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are working in Information Technology, then you are part of the Critical Infrastructure of this country.
Most of the tech support and cybersecurity peers I have been talking with over the last month have been pretty busy deploying Work From Home (WFM) solutions. But if you are getting to a place where the demand for your services is ...
Continue Reading →This is too funny. A long video but worth the good humor. From Austrailia. Full article here. Hilarious video below. 8 minutes, the bit about the hoarder starts at 5:15.
An Australian supermarket boss has revealed his brutal and blunt response after a shopper tried to return thousands of rolls of toilet paper and hand sanitiser.
The South Australian shopper went into one of the state’s Drake’s supermarkets and tried to make a deal. Drakes supermarkets director John-Paul ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Seems to be a lot of bug fixes going around. Patches and updates are a critical part of good security. Here are a few important ones.
Investigative report on how commercial bug-bounty programs like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and SynAck are being ...
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Phishing Email AlertsExamples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from reliable sources on the Internet.
Emails and text message about COVID-19 infections or information need to be treated with the utmost suspicion. Do not click through the links, or with emails, open any attachments.
Calling for support from Microsoft or other IT service providers can be daunting. Today I am sharing a n article from my colleague Lisa Hendrickson. Lisa is an Office 365 specialist and expert. She sent this article to me in a recent newsletter, and I just had to share it. The newsletter article follows immediately.
Hey folks! Today I will discuss calling Microsoft support for home and business users. I ...
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