Business email compromise emails or also known as the CEO email scams impact basically every organization. You are at risk of getting one and there is nothing you can do to prevent one from being delivered. This episode goes into what this scam is, why...
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When you have an incident in your business, from a virus infection or massive outage, do you and your business know how to react? Incident response plans are an important part of an effective security program. This episode lays out some simple steps to...
The new threats to businesses is cryptomining. Instead of delivering ransomware or other damaging malware criminals are turning to secretly using your computer's processor power to mine for cryptocurrencies. This episode goes into why they are doing, h...
This past week a new zero day vulnerability was announced for Adobe Flash. Just add it to the list of security holes Flash has. It's time to get rid of Flash from all your computers, this episode goes into why. Be aware, be safe. ---------------------...
This week's tools, tips and tricks episode talks about bWapp, a very buggy web application. bWapp is a fully functional web application you can download and install locally for security research, penetration testing, education and remediation exercises...
Scareware is software that is installed on your PC that will alert you to some dire event. Usually it deals with viruses detected and the end game is you have to pay to upgrade the software to clean it. Scareware is junk and Microsoft is taking an offe...
Meltdown and Spectre are two nasty vulnerabilities that were announced a few weeks ago. What makes these so bad is they are on the processors, the brains, of the computers. Recently security researches are now seeing malware in the wild exploiting thes...
Today is Safer Internet Day! A day each year in February to help bring awareness for creating a safer Internet for children and young people. The 2018 theme, "Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you" is a call to action for...
It's that time of year for us all to do our taxes. It's also the time of year our most sensitive data is moving around to multiple locations, seen by several people, printed, stored, emailed, faxed and we want to keep them safe. This episode talks abou...
This week's tools, tips and tricks is about secure communication. Privacy is becoming a huge issue and people are starting to come around to the need for it. That's where ProtonMail comes into play. This episode goes into the details of what ProtonMail...
I was sitting in my home office and the phone rang. A guy on the other end with a hard accent said his name was 'Mark' and said he detected viruses on my computer for several days. He goes on to try to scare me with computer terms and eventually pitche...
Reddit, the front page of the Internet, one of the largest and most popular websites on the web improve their security capabilities. Reddit rolled out two factor authentication to all their 250 million users. Currently two factor authentication is the ...
In businesses it's a common and bad practice for IT administrators to share accounts. The practice lowers the number of high privilege accounts in a company but by doing so removes the ability of proper accountability, tracking and control. Over the ye...
Were you aware Google is recording your voice from your computers and mobile devices? They are. Did you know you can go into your account, listen to all the creepy recordings of you talking at random times but you can also delete and turn it off. This ...
There are times when you come across a file and have no idea what it is, what it's for, if it's dangerous and if you can delete it. This is where a website like Fileinfo.com comes in. There are many resources like Fileinfo.com out there, this is just o...
Google recently announced a report that only 10% of Gmail accounts have two-factor authentication enabled. Although the feature has been available since 2011 mass adoption has not occurred. This episode goes into what two-factor authentication is and w...
The latest generation of home routers make it very easy to connect large USB hard drives for centralized file backups and sharing. The episode tells a story of how dangerous that is if you aren't looking out for certain things. You may be unknowingly a...
Penalties from hacked companies are insufficient to curb security practices and properly cover victims. That is about to change. A new proposal by the Senate would significantly increate the penalties against credit agencies that were hacked. Equifax g...