““When we talked about the revelations of Snowden, it was hard to convince some folks on the progressive side to care,” said Josh Levy, advocacy director of Access Now, a nonprofit that runs a digital security hotline to counsel activists around the world on how to avoid surveillance. “I would talk to folks about the…
“Training is a big part of protecting yourself from phishing attacks. There are a lot of ways to train employees, but giving them a phishing test is pretty standard. Can you recognize a phishing message? There are several free testing sites at OpenDNS or SonicWall.” Think you would always recognize a phishing attempt? Care to…
“Tenable Network Security surveyed “700 security practitioners across seven key industry verticals and nine countries” that produced “a single report card score that represents overall confidence levels of security practitioners that the world’s cyber defenses are meeting expectations.” The “2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card” from Tenable with research partner CyberEdge Group included these comments…
“Don’t open it. Or, at least DO NOT click on the link it contains. What will this now-popular hacker email look like? It will be an email from SOMEONE YOU KNOW that looks like this.” Seriously, don’t click on a link in an email unless you were expecting it, and if you’re going to send…
Since we are all in a tizzy about fake news, and Russian hacking, here’s one for you. I’ve seen this headline shared all over the place for the last couple of days: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility This sounds awful. Clearly the Russians are trying to hack the power grid, and disrupt life in…
Most of you probably haven’t noticed the change on the site over the last few days. At least I hope not many have, but go ahead and look up in your address bar. Yes, the site is no longer http://, it is now https://. The same is true for all of my blogs now. With…