Collaborate Disseminate
Like most people, I’m drawn to those small lists of “rules” that promise to make our lives better. Brian Krebs reposted a list back in May that we all need to share with our older loved ones: three basic rules of online safety.
The post Krebs’ Three Ru… Continue reading Krebs’ Three Rules
How do you deal with scam calls on a phone number you keep for emergencies? Continue reading Vishing scams use Amazon and Prime as lures – don’t get caught!
Did the GandCrab ransomware gang really ‘retire’ when they said, or did they never go away? Continue reading GandCrab ransomware revisited – is it back under a (R)evil new guise?
Last year my Twitter feed became full of stories and retweets about how Google “solved the phishing problem” using hardware multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens. One such article covering this topic was “Google: Security Keys Neut… Continue reading MFA is No Cure for Phishing
The incidents affected millions, just as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season kicked off. Continue reading USPS, Amazon Data Leaks Showcase API Weaknesses
An anonymous report claims that a ton of your company’s customer data has been exposed. A sense of calm is in the air as you enact your vulnerability disclosure policy. You save the day, get a promotion and rainbows and unicorns fill the sky. The… Continue reading Every Business Needs a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. Every. Single. Business.
No word on when we’ll see the movie, but the plot points keep coming. Continue reading Thugs who sent Brian Krebs heroin and a SWAT team sentenced
How do you trace the source of an attack that came from network devices located all around the globe? Krebs thinks he’s done it… Continue reading The Mirai DDoS botnet: Brian Krebs claims to know who wrote it
Attacks that took down Dyn appear to have been “rented” from multiple botnets. Continue reading How one rent-a-botnet army of cameras, DVRs caused Internet chaos