May 16, 2021 | business, cybersecurity, law, news, security
Ransomware is big business. I mean that in the most boring way possible. Have you been following the news about the Colonial Pipeline hack? There is a nuance that sheds much light on the modern world, but to get to it I need to be sure you have the basic facts of...
May 2, 2021 | business, Privacy, security
You know the big three credit bureaus, right? It’s always entertaining to watch the gyrations of the random number they assign to each of us called a “credit score.” It’s the credit bureaus that cause your blood pressure to spike when you find out how inaccurate their...
Apr 29, 2021 | Facebook, LinkedIn, Privacy, security
There was a bit of a fuss earlier this month when personal data turned up on the dark web for more than 500 million Facebook users, including name, phone number, gender, marital status, city/country, and occupation. The response was pretty muted. Security experts...
Apr 4, 2021 | news, Politics, security
It’s story time! Sit back and relax, I have a good one for you today. It’s not my story – all the credit belongs to Greg Miller and the Washington Post, who wrote a bombshell article about it a year ago. I’m going to boil it down to a thousand words because I...
Mar 28, 2021 | Amazon, Facebook, Google, LastPass, Privacy, security, web_services
It seems like everyone is using the sign-in screen that invites you to “Sign in with Facebook” to a website that is not Facebook. Facebook and Google turn up most often but you might also see the option to sign in with Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, Instagram, or others....
Mar 10, 2021 | mail, Microsoft, Office 365, security
Hackers have infiltrated tens of thousands of servers running Exchange mailboxes. It’s a huge cybersecurity event, rivaling the severity of the Solarwinds Russia hack. Before we get to the details, let’s put some of you at ease. Microsoft’s online Office 365 mailboxes...
