A hospital in Indiana recently was the victim of a ransomware attack. The ransom was 4 Bitcoin, about $55,000 at the time, and the hospital was given 7 days to pay it. The hospital ultimately paid the ransom but even though they have backups to recover...
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Everyday we hear about a new vulnerability, a new flaw, a series of critical patches we need to apply. How do we keep it all straight? The Exploit Database is how. This episode goes into what the Exploit Database is and why you should have it in your b...
Phishing, emails made to look legitimate, is one of the main methods to deliver malware, steal credentials and conduct fraud. Security awareness training covers phishing but how do you really know if people can avoid them? Trust but verify and how you ...
This episode lays out five simple tips you can take to help protect yourself from hackers. These tips are applicable to an individual or to any business, big or small, to help protect and mitigate hacker's activities against your systems. Be aware, ...
VTech had a large data leak with one of their toys in 2015 and now they have been hit with a big fine. VTech collected personal information on millions of children and did not disclose this properly to the parents and did not have proper security contr...
Creating a security program is the easy part, getting it integrated and accepted by the business and employees is the hard part. Security is more than the technology supporting it, security needs to be accepted by people to be effective. People have to...
This week's tools, tips and tricks episode is a tip on gathering guidelines on building a cybersecurity program. The Federal Communication Commission has a website for Cybersecurity planning. There you can download great beginning resources, especially...
A new security flaw has been announced that impacts almost every computer and mobile device built in the last 10 years. This shows the importance of patching regularly, especially when major vulnerabilities are announced like this. This episode goes ov...
Top 10 security tips for your network and we are at number 10 - Don't forget about mobile and BYOD. It may seem cheap, easy and flexible to allow employees to use their own personal devices to access company email and resources but you could be exposin...
Personally Identifiable Information is the gateway to identity theft. We hear about companies losing control of PII but there are also things individuals can do to cause identity theft as well. This episode goes into the tips and pitfalls you could be ...
If you use a browser you may have noticed that when you enter a username/password in a website the browser asks you to save it. Don't. It may seem convenient to save those for easy login next time but it's not as secure as you think. This episode goes ...
This week's TTT episode talks about a website from Qualsys' SSL Labs. SSL Server Test is a fantastic website for a preliminary scan of any website you control. This will check all the SSL information, known SSL based vulnerabilities, check the domain w...
Everyone takes notes for their job. Not everyone keeps a journal specifically around their career life. Journaling is a powerful tool, if done correctly, to help you grow as a person and shape your career by recording wins and losses. This episode goes...
Continuing with mini-series Top 10 Tips to Secure Your Network we are at number nine. Define strong rules for your administrator accounts. These accounts are the keys to the kingdom, full access for your employees to the their jobs easily but also allo...
Your video games systems are powerful computers running operating systems similar to those driving your desktops. Requiring internet connectivity exposes these machines and your information exposed if not taken care of. This episode goes through each o...
The last episode of the year! This episode goes over my security and IT predictions for 2018. The full blog post on the predictions can be found on Binaryblogger.com Be aware, be safe. ------------------------------------ Website - https://www.binary...
Each year on my blog, binaryblogger.com, I do security & IT predictions for the next year. As part of that, before I release my predictions I go back and look at the ones I made before and rate them. This episode goes over my predictions I made for 201...
As 2017 comes to a close we look back at the top security breaches of the year. This episode goes over the biggest breaches of 2017 and how each happened. Be aware, be safe. ------------------------------------ Website - https://www.binaryblogger.co...