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Convenience Gadgets – Design, Functionality then Security

Oct 19, 2019 | automation, bluetooth, Business, Consumer, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, gadgets, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Infosec, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, IoT, Monitoring, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Passwords, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Security Alerts, Smart Home, spying, Surveillance, Technology, Updates

Convenience Gadgets – Design, Functionality then Security The first half of this year has been marked with a rampant increase on all those little gadget devices known by the acronym, IoT. These are any small device or controller that is network connected....

Standing our Ground on Encryption – without it, we will lose all Privacy!

Oct 19, 2019 | cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email, Encryption, Government, Hacking, Internet, Nationstates, News, Online, Organized Crime, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Technology

Standing our Ground on Encryption – without it, we will lose all Privacy! According to the US Consitution, we have the right to be secure in our persons, houses, and papers. Unlike 1787 when they wrote the constitution, today, “our papers” are digitally...

More Than Three-Quarters of US Businesses Are CyberAtttack Targets

Oct 12, 2019 | Best Practices, Business, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, industrial espionage, Internet, Malware, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Technology

More Than Three-Quarters of US Businesses Are CyberAtttack Targets Cybersecurity incidents are up! Hackers worldwide favorite target du jour are U.S. small and medium-sized businesses. Unfortunately, for many, they have fallen back on the false idea they are...

Sophisticated Email Attacks Against Businesses Are Up Exponentially

Oct 12, 2019 | Business, Business Email Compromise, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, Email, Email, Employees, Hacking, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security

Sophisticated Email Attacks Against Businesses Are Up Exponentially The top tactic preferred by cybercriminals is the use of what is known as Impersonation fraud or more commonly as Business email compromise (BEC). Since these rarely involve malware, it is...

Popular Game Breaches Personally Identifiable Information of 218 Million People

Oct 5, 2019 | Apple, Business, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Gaming, Google, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, iPad, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Tablet, Technology

Popular Game Breaches Personally Identifiable Information of 218 Million People Do you like to play games on your smartphone or tablet? Word games, crosswords, and word searches and other social brain challenge games are quite popular but none so much as Words...

Audit Logs May Help You Make Your Case — If You Have Them

Sep 27, 2019 | Audit Logs, Business, Coding, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, data sharing, Databases, Governance, Hacking, Nationstates, Organized Crime, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security Alerts, Technology

Audit Logs May Help You Make Your Case — If You Have Them Most businesses today are fielding malicious attacks on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. Do you keep audit logs of the activity on your computer system? Logs can act as a red flag to identify when...