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Finding, Using, and Staying Safe on Public Free Wi-Fi

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If there’s one thing I’ve come to know about the tech crowd, it’s this: we all want free Wi-Fi connections everywhere we go, and we want them now. Now finding that free Wi-Fi is great, and we’ll look at how to find some anywhere you go, but we’ll also look at staying safe on that […]… Read More

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The Newest Online Threat – .Zepto Ransomware

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Terrible news shook the web the other day, as reports surfaced of a new ransomware virus circulating the web. A new version of the infamous Locky ransomware has been unleashed upon users worldwide, affecting computers all across the globe from the USA to Mexico, Japan, Germany, and beyond. The unwelcome arrival of the new virus […]… Read More

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3 Ideas to Help Create Phishing Awareness

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I’m pleased to say someone very close to me was recently nabbed by a phish. The phish came into her email looking important and innocuous, so she opened it (and the attachment) and was immediately presented with a message that read, “Your corporate IT security team is conducting phishing training. You just opened what could […]… Read More

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My Time at Cisco Live 2015

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Looking back now, it’s all a bit of a blur but what a wild ride it’s been! Perfect weather for my cape.. #CLDreamTeam #CLUS @netacadcanada @ciscolive pic.twitter.com/r9IPvucYEm — Zoë Rose (@5683Monkey) June 9, 2015 It was early spring 2015. I was fully immersed in the Cisco Networking Academy program at Red River College. As I […]… Read More

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The Trouble with Web Conferences

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We sold our house and moved to an apartment in January, waiting for our new home to get built. Cleaning up the house for a move is a big chore, and one of my tasks for a weekend before the sale was cleaning up a big pile of post-it notes left in a box. I […]… Read More

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Securing Applications During Development: The Ins and Outs of Open Source Static Code Analysis Tools

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Just as having a larger family inevitably results in more children forgotten at swim practice, the bigger your software project, the harder it becomes to find every bug, security vulnerability and logic flaw. In-house enterprise developer teams can become overwhelmed by the number of branches in a project and bugs can go unnoticed until the […]… Read More

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Insider Threats Often Overlooked by Security Experts

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In today’s world, where technology is becoming an ever greater part of our everyday lives, it appears we aren’t quite keeping up with it. Believe it or not, we still tend to underestimate the importance of cyber security, as a recent survey by Soha System’s Third Party Advisory Group has shown. According to the survey, […]… Read More

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Bruce Schneier at Infosecurity Europe 2016

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This year’s Infosecurity Europe conference had so many great places to be and things to do that it was often hard to choose how best to spend one’s limited time and harder still for many to identify a single highlight. For myself personally, however, it had to be the opportunity to hear one of my […]… Read More

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Don’t Fear the Reaper – Getting the Most Out of Your Penetration Tests

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PCI-DSS v3.2 will be in full-force this October. At that time, service providers will be required to complete penetration tests by an external third party twice a year. The term “service provider” leaves significant room for interpretation. Discuss PCI-DSS v3.2 with your QSA to determine how changes may impact your organization. Whether to be PCI […]… Read More

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How To Prepare Your Website For A DDoS Attack

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In a previous article, we discussed building a deeper understanding of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, what they do, who’s behind them, and what they all come down to. To follow, here’s how to prepare your website for DDoS attack. According to the results of a study conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, a DDoS […]… Read More

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