COTSE-Ban the US Mail!
This is great, again COTSE comes through with a very insightful article about current ideas out in the media.
The article was written back when school was starting, to help with teens understand some of the risks that come with their new computers, tablets and mobile phones. Frankly, though, I think the advice given is good for anyone, of any age. So go read it and learn about passwords, social media safety and the…
Law firms can probably replace the phrase “C-level Executive” with partner, right? “However, a rift exists in terms of cybersecurity accountability: 55% of IT professionals said they believed that C-level executives should lose their jobs if a breach is serious enough, yet 61% also said that C-level executives they work with expect more lenient security…
Rick does a good job of describing how he can look at this email and determine that it’s a scam, but maybe this is the easiest one: “Finally, if AmEx is going to give me a credit, they will just credit the account, and explain the credit on the account page. There are other clues;…
The other day, I spent an hour with Cheryl Harrison, meeting up as part of her Fast Friends experiment. (Which is an interesting experiment in ad of itself.) One of the things we were discussing was the various ways people connect online now. I was regaling my new, young, friend with tales of having to…
These breaches don’t hit the news cycle in the same way, but they are a lot more common, and they’re just stupid careless mistakes for the most part. “Some 2,124 reports could be attributed to human error, compared to just 292 that were deliberate cyber incidents, Kroll said, with the most common types of incidents…