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What’s the harm in sharing your mobile number?
Oct 22, 2019 | Data Breach, Hackers, Personal Privacy Invasion, Security Learning
For some of you, it has (prior to this) been routine to punch in your phone number as an identifier for "club reward" points at the grocery store or other retail location. Yet, for many of us, mobile phone numbers especially follow us from apartment to apartment to home. We don't change that number often, if at all....
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Oct 16, 2019 | Data Breach, Hackers, Personal Privacy Invasion, Security Alert
Wondered why you've likely seen a bunch of articles about cybersecurity recently? Well, we should think about cybersecurity once in a while! The linked article is a good general deep dive into how to think about keeping your family safe in this connected world. Good advice about what to do if you think you've been...
World Password Day – Why It’s Important
May 5, 2016 | Hackers, Security Learning
Today is the day. You've been putting it off for months or years. Your IT department harps on it. Your credit card companies and banks send out calls to update. And you may have automated messages or even lock-outs from more advanced systems, all geared to keep you changing things. Why change? The conventional...
Bugged Tracked & Hacked
Apr 22, 2016 | Hackers
60 Minute down under produced a James Bond style drama news story to tell us about two of the most dangerous cell phone exploits that are widely known by hackers and government agencies. It's an entertaining overview of SS7 network flaw and how hackers use create fake cell phone towers with IMSI Catcher. FULL SHOW...
Malvertising Ransonware – Don’t Click on That Ad
Mar 23, 2016 | Malware, Security Alert
Major websites were hit by a "malvertising" attack that hijacked people's computers and demanded ransom. Something else to fear. Yes, just when you thought web advertising couldn't be more annoying with slow page loading, pop-ups in the middle of that interesting article and more Viagra than you ever care the know...
Feinstein Institute to Pay $3.9 million for Laptop Breach
Mar 17, 2016 | Data Breach
As announced on the Health and Human Services website: $3.9 Million HIPAA Breach Settlement Feinstein Institute for Medical Research agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) $3.9 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and...
Locky Ransomware – Data Lockout
Feb 16, 2016 | Malware, Security Alert
Network Admins and network users beware... Have you heard about the new Locky ransomware? It encrypts your data on network shares using AES encryption even when they aren't mapped. Locky changes filenames for encrypted files to make it more difficult to restore the right data. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center...
You May Have Already Been Stung
Jan 22, 2015 | Personal Privacy Invasion
Stingray - illegal for you, but Law Enforcement uses it without your knowledge or consent. You may have an unusual message in the days leading up to the 2016 Rose Bowl - authorities could monitor cell phones. Homeland Security's deputy special agent in charge told the LA Times their agency would have in place the...