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  • 05-14-2024 (Know what you have in the cloud)
  • 04-09-2024 (Word of the Week: Confabulation! and why it's a problem in AI)
  • 03-26-2024 (Be cautious when making changes)
  • 03-19-2024 (Protect yourself against vishing attacks)
  • 03-12-2024 (It can happen to anyone)
  • 03-05-2024 (If you don't need it, get rid of it!)
  • 02-27-2024 (Lessons from the AT&T outage)
  • 02-20-2024 (Change Default Passwords)
  • 02-06-2024 (Secure Your Stuff)
  • 01-30-2024 (Safe Screen-Sharing)
  • 01-23-2024 (Cyber security news roundup)
  • 01-16-2024 (You can't solve a process problem with technology, Part 2)
  • 01-09-2024 (Online job scams)
  • 12-19-2023 (Cyber Safe Travel)
  • 12-05-2023 (An online mistake can ruin your digital life)
  • 11-28-2023 (Screenshare Blunders & Selfie Awareness)
  • 11-21-2023 (Before you get rid of that old phone or tablet)
  • 11-14-2023 (You can't solve a process problem with technology)
  • 11-07-2023 (Beware of "reship packages" jobs, Do you have a copy of that somewhere?)
  • 10-24-2023 (Patch early, patch often!)
  • 10-17-2023 (Maintaining work/life balance: the cyber security perspective)
  • 10-10-2023 (Breaking down the 23andMe incident)
  • 10-03-2023 (Understanding software version numbers)
  • 09-26-2023 (Password hygiene, Loving on the NIST CSF)
  • 09-19-2023 (A simple phone call: the MGM attack)
  • 09-12-2023 (Windows 7: Achilles Heel)
  • 09-05-2023 (Verify apps & developers before downloading, Close applications, log off and reboot occasionally)
  • 08-29-2023 (QR Code Safety and the importance of having your own backups)
  • 08-22-2023 (Consult Only Original Sources of Information)
  • 08-15-2023 (Practice Selfie Awareness)
  • 08-08-2023 (How Does That Work? (Understanding integrations, and the woman who secured the Internet)
  • 08-01-2023 (Be alert for skimmers)
  • 07-25-2023 (Public wifi, free cloud tools)
  • 07-18-2023 (Stalkerware and Facebook Phishing)
  • 07-11-2023 (Last one: "Recover")
  • 06-27-2023 (Let's look at "Respond")
  • 06-20-2023 (Let's look at "Protect")
  • 06-13-2023 (Let's look at "Identify")
  • 06-06-2023 ("Detect" may be the most important)
  • 05-30-2023 (To patch or not to patch?)
  • 05-23-2023 (Consult Only Original Sources of Information)
  • 05-16-2023 (What does artificial intelligence mean to you?)
  • 05-09-2023 (New security initiatives from Apple & Google)
  • 05-02-2023 (Google is not your friend)
  • 04-25-2023 (Patching, repurposing and bad security habits)
  • 04-18-2023 (FBI IC3 report, vocabulary lesson & Nexx devices)
  • 04-11-2023 (Beware of Pirated Software)
  • 04-04-2023 (Latest FBM/TikTok scam)
  • 03-28-2023 (Introducing aCropalypse)
  • 03-21-2023 (Remove Unnecessary Software)
  • 03-14-2023 (Is ChatGPT working for you? or is it the other way around)
  • 03-07-2023 (What is OAuth and why do you care?)
  • 02-28-2023 (What is a zero-day exploit?)
  • 02-14-2023 (Event related scams, malvertising spike)
  • 02-07-2023 (Close applications, log off and reboot occasionally)
  • 01-31-2023 (Log On, Log Off -- protect yourself against session hijacking)
  • 01-24-2023 (Google Ads feature fake websites, used to deliver malware)
  • 01-17-2023 (How Bad Was That LastPass Breach? The Number One Way to Protect Your Devices Online)
  • 12-20-2022 (When auto-update isn't, tricking A/V and InfraGard hack)
  • 12-13-2022 (Online Shopping Safety)
  • 12-06-2022 (TikTok "Invisible Body" challenge, LastPass breached again)
  • 11-29-2022 (Before you get rid of that old phone or tablet)
  • 11-22-2022 (Beware of BatLoader)
  • 11-15-2022 (Cyber liability insurance)
  • 11-08-2022 (Social Engineering Defense)
  • 11-01-2022 (Video camera savvy & selfie awareness)
  • 10-25-2022 (Spelljacking and Federal Student Aid Scams)
  • 10-18-2022 (I'll fix it later, You can't secure it if you don't know it's there)
  • 10-11-2022 (Consult Only Original Sources of Information)
  • 10-04-2022 (The Principle of Least Privilege)
  • 09-27-2022 (Recent Uber hack and The AAA Protocols)
  • 09-20-2022 (Quote of the Week, Three Good Questions)
  • 09-13-2022 (Misconfigurations & Amazon)
  • 09-06-2022 (Webb telescope images used to deliver malware, the most freaky time of the year)
  • 08-30-2022 (DDoS protection popups, mobile device attacks & MFA attacks)
  • 08-23-2022 (VNC attacks, crazy case of ID theft, cyber insurance news)
  • 08-16-2022 (USB Hygiene)
  • 08-09-2022 (Think before you plug it in! and cyber insurance)
  • 08-02-2022 (Just 15 minutes, 2FA thwarts ransomware gangs)
  • 07-26-2022 (Restricting Administrative Privileges)
  • 07-19-2022 (Think before you click, Ransomware, Amazon Ring)
  • 07-12-2022 (Prime Day phishes, deepfakes, infected downloads, 2FA)
  • 07-05-2022 (Can't make it up, wireless router attacks & TikTok)
  • 06-21-2022 (Phishing is not just email)
  • 06-14-2022 (Do it for yourself and also for others)
  • 06-07-2022 (Microsoft Office zero day, ChromeLoader Malware)
  • 05-31-2022 (Credential Stuffing attacks, Do it for others)
  • 05-24-2022 (Cyber Security Roundup)
  • 05-17-2022 (Cyber insurance, business email compromise)
  • 05-03-2022 (What is a credit freeze?)
  • 04-26-2022 (Bug of the Year, Who has access? Single points of failure)
  • 04-19-2022 (Anatomy of an Attack, more lessons from SolarWinds)
  • 04-12-2022 (WordPress, SolarWinds & PCI DSS 4.0)
  • 04-05-2022 (2FA and Prompt Bombing)
  • 03-29-2022 (If you do only one thing to protect yourself today)
  • 03-22-2022 (Configuration is Everything)
  • 03-15-2022 (Looking Behind the Curtain)
  • 03-08-2022 (Protect Yourself with Basic Cyber Hygiene)
  • 02-22-2022 (Beware of Fake Update Installers)
  • 02-15-2022 (Offboarding, the Great Resignation & Insider Threats)
  • 02-08-2022 (Business Pressures & Regulatory Roundup)
  • 02-07-2022 (Special GLBA Update for the financial services industry)
  • 02-02-2022 (The dangers of QR codes)
  • 01-25-2022 (Your personal incident response plan)
  • 01-18-2022 (Understanding 2FA/MFA Options)
  • 12-07-2021 (Cyber Security Roundup)
  • 11-23-2021 (More Phish, ICS systems and Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes)
  • 11-16-2021 (Phishy, phishy, phishy! Holiday scams)
  • 11-02-2021 (IT vendors & managed service providers under attack)
  • 10-19-2021 (Safe shopping online, online scammers targeting seniors)
  • 10-12-2021 (That FB outage, and "my email has been hacked")
  • 10-05-2021 (Say what you do, and do what you say)
  • 09-28-2021 (Securing your wireless router)
  • 09-21-2021 (Be cyber aware)
  • 09-14-2021 (Breaking down those “best practices” from ERISA, part 2)
  • 08-31-2021 (Shadow IT, protect emails from getting blocked)
  • 08-24-2021 (Protecting online accounts)
  • 08-17-2021 (Backup Basics, Part 2: Social Media & cloud services)
  • 08-10-2021 (What's hiding in your screen share?)
  • 08-03-2021 (Cyber Security Roundup)
  • 07-27-2021 (Consult Only Original Sources of Information)
  • 07-20-2021 (New online resources, breaking down those “best practices” from ERISA)
  • 07-13-2021 (The US Government is going "all in" on cyber security, plus great tip sheets & more)
  • 07-06-2021 (The dangers of using a single account to log into many accounts, and more)
  • 06-29-2021 (The importance of tracking & managing user accounts)
  • 06-22-2021 (Google is not your friend, using network segmentation to secure your data)
  • 06-15-2021 (Detecting & Responding to a malware infection)
  • 06-08-2021 (How did Colonial Pipeline get ransomware?)
  • 06-01-2021 (How do I Patch my Things? and more patches)
  • 05-25-2021 (The Cyber Security Dangers of Travel and more patches)
  • 05-11-2021 (Why I Love 2FA and lots more critical vulnerabilities)
  • 04-27-2021 (Lots of critical vulnerabilities, FLoC is a FLoP, Ransomware & more)
  • 04-20-2021 (Big Patch Tuesday, FBI Hacking, Patch all the Things)
  • 04-13-2021 (Securing Mobile Devices)
  • 03-30-2021 (Ransomware Best Practices, Update all the Things)
  • 03-23-2021 (Protect the "smart" things, more Exchange)
  • 03-16-2021 (When smart devices let you down, more about Exchange, Apple & Adobe patches, camera hacks)
  • 03-11-2021 (Important notice about the Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities)
  • 03-10-2021 (Exchange debacle, Cyber Security Best Practices and "Smart Devices")
  • 03-02-2021 (Table top exercises!)
  • 02-23-2021 (Backups, Lessons Learned, Firewalls, Malware for Macs & More)
  • 02-09-2021 (When Analog Communications Go Digital)
  • 02-02-2021 (An infosec sea shanty, and Prevent, Detect & Respond)
  • 01-26-2021 (An Ounce of Prevention, Cloud Attacks & the Importance of Inventory)
  • 01-19-2021 (SolarWinds, smishing, CISA's new Action Guide & more)
  • 12-15-2020 (More cloud, more ransomware, more patches)
  • 12-08-2020 (BEC, holiday scams, cyberattacks surging & more)
  • 12-01-2020 (Telework is here to stay, CMMC-RP, RPO, Cyber Essentials Toolkit #6)
  • 11-17-2020 (Cyber Liability Insurance, more about the "shared responsibility model" in the Cloud)
  • 11-10-2020 (Business Email Compromise, Securing OT devices and Protecting Yourself from MitM Attacks)
  • 11-03-2020 (3 Free Ways to Protect Yourself Online, Security Requirements by Industry)
  • 10-27-2020 (Do you know your "wares"? and lots more vulnerabilities)
  • 10-20-2020 (Good backups, more on The AAA Protocols and Ransomware Victims Beware, lots of vulnerabilities)
  • 10-14-2020 (The AAA Protocols, Ransomware Victims Beware, Android & wifi vulnerabilities)
  • 09-29-2020 (Prioritizing Cyber Security in Your Organization, Four Major Trends Impacting Cyber Security)
  • 09-22-2020 (Good Passwords, the Feds say they are better, 2FA for Zoom)
  • 09-15-2020 (Malware Defense!  Patches for critical vulnerabilities, Good Reads & more)
  • 09-01-2020 (More About Email Accounts, Digital Immortality and Back to Basics/CIS 20 part 3)
  • 08-25-2020 (Restart Now, Your Email Is Key, CISA Cyber Essentials, Back to Basics/CIS part 2)
  • 08-18-2020 (Back to Basics, the CIS 20, Shadow IT)
  • 08-10-2020 (FBI Warning on Win7, Secure Your Stuff! and more)
  • 08-04-2020 (Managing Supply Chain Risk, More Cloud, Making Good Backups and more)
  • 07-28-2020 (Security is a Team Sport, Building a Culture of Security, and more critical security patches)
  • 07-21-2020 (Teleworking is here to stay, Microsoft critical security patches, VC tips & more)
  • 07-14-2020 (To Cloud, or Not to Cloud?)
  • 07-07-2020 (Ransomware, phishing defense, Netgear & Palo Alto security vulnerabilities, CISA Cyber Essentials Toolkits)
  • 06-29-2020 (Introduction, and a discussion of cyber security in the context of information security)

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