Soon after announcing her bid for mayor of Chicago in the February election, Toni Preckwinkle enjoyed great success in Tuesday’s Cook County Board races.The county board president and county Democratic leader backed successful challengers to two Republ...
Lake Street El
Young Democrat Lauren Underwood unseated Republican Randy Hultgren in Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, helping her party wrest control of the U.S. House away from the GOP.Underwood, a 32-year-old who worked in the Obama administration, won 52 per...
Illinois’ 6th District played a pivotal part in Tuesday’s Democratic takeover of the U.S. House, as first-time candidate Sean Casten unseated Republican incumbent Peter Roskam on what long has been solidly GOP turf.With 77 percent of precincts reportin...
Democratic State Sen. Kwame Raoul will be the next attorney general of Illinois, easily defeating Republican Erika Harold in Tuesday’s election.At about 8:30 p.m., Harold conceded to Raoul, who enjoyed huge support in the campaign from the state’s Demo...
Republican businessman Mike Braun ousted Sen. Joe Donnelly, Indiana's lone statewide elected Democrat, in a race in which both candidates portrayed themselves as fans of President Donald Trump.The defeat of the Democratic incumbent likely will help the...
Polls in Illinois closed at 7 p.m. central time. Get up-to-the-minute election results right here.
The founder and CEO of the city’s largest and most successful charter school network abruptly retired on Tuesday.Mike Milkie, 57, started the first Noble Charter School in 1999 and grew it into a network of 17 campuses, serving more than 12,000 student...
Several hundred parents crowded into a school gym Monday evening, most there to call on Chicago Public Schools to reinstate a principal leading two Near North Side schools through a controversial merger.
Microsoft's anti-virus solution called Windows Defender has released a capability that no other anti-virus solution does. This new feature great improves the security of the solution and other vendors will follow suit. This episode talks all about it and how to enable it.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
The Chicago City Council’s finance committee approved a measure Monday that would forgive ticket debt for some city motorists, but only those who file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The move is meant to steer indebted drivers away from Chapter 13 bankruptci...
Illinois’ two Democratic U.S. senators called on the state’s embattled public health director to resign Monday over a “botched response” to a 2015 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that killed 12 residents of the Quincy veterans’ home.The demand by U.S. S...
A few weeks ago Google came under fire for automatically logging users into Chrome when they signed in to Google services. This did not go over well with the privacy concerned people, I did an episode on it, and Google listened. This episode goes over their change and how to disable that feature in Chrome.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
This week's tools, tips and tricks episode talks about Weakpass.com. This web offers wordlists that can be used, for educational purposes only, to crack passwords, hashses, WPA2 connections, etc...
Source: https://weakpass.com
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
Firefox keeps making itself my favorite browser. Their security and privacy focus has taken a front seat with them and they keep adding to it. This episode goes over a new ability in Firefox 63 that allows you to block tracking cookies.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
Apple's phones may not be the top of the list for features and functionality, but they are tops when it comes to security and keeping your data private. This episode goes over a few security features in the iPhone you probably didn't know about.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
Security policies are in place to protect the business, data and employees. From time to time those policies are broken. This episode tries to go through and explain why employees seem to keep breaking the policies. The answer is not as simple as you may think.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
The term 'Application Security' is used as a blanket over a much larger challenge. True application security goes beyond the code. This episode goes into the details and areas around application security and why it's such an important aspect.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com
This week's tools, tips and tricks is about the privileged account management company Thycotic. They offer their vault solution called Secret Server for free. This is a $5,000 value. This episode goes over this tool and if you are any business without a privileged account solution why you should get this.
Be aware, be safe.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Security In Five Newsletter.
Send in your Security Horror Stories - bblogger@protonmail.com
—————— Where you can find Binary Blogger ——————
Security In Five Podcast Page - Podcast RSS
iTunes, YouTube, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher
Email - contactme@binaryblogger.com