The thing I hate about lists like this is that way too many people will read the list of airports, and assume they can be “protected” by just not using Wi-Fi there. In fact, every public Wi-Fi network has vulnerabilities and should never be trusted. Use a VPN everywhere, whether the airport in question made…
“Your Peers Are Your Secret Weapon” It really is the best reason to go to the ILTA conference. If you’re going to ILTACON or any other industry conference this year, check out some of Sam’s advice on networking, and being social. I know for some of us introverts that can be a difficult thing. I’ll…
This was only one US law firm that criminals claimed to be able to access: “Q6 Cyber, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in monitoring the dark web, showed CNBC a forum post in Russian where the cybercriminal was offering access to a New York City law firm’s network and files, and was willing to send…
In a nutshell, and in my own paraphrasing.- “Oops, now that we’ve gone and developed all this technology, it turns out people might use if for nefarious purposes, government, step in and stop us” From the actual article: “Smith pointed to several areas where the government could potentially create standards so that companies themselves wouldn’t…
This was the quote that had me nodding my head. “Additionally, FedEx could not use its own business decision “to store huge amounts of information … as a shield” against reasonable discovery requests.” So if searching and producing that amount of email is as impossible as you’re claiming, why did you keep it? What was…
Yet again we see otherwise smart people doing something silly when it comes to computer security. There’s a lot of detail in the article below, but this quote is definitely something everyone should keep in mind: “There is a massive, massive gulf of understanding between otherwise competent professionals and the most basic tenets of computer…