Monthly Archives: August 2015

Trouble Picking a Password?

It’s sometimes hard picking a password, and hopefully this can help, add emoticons (sometimes called emoji) to your password. Of course don’t just use the emotes, but bolster your whole password with upper and lower case, numbers, and other special … Continue reading

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When a Security Manager Just Needs Tasks Automated

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Security Awareness Memes

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Let the Data Tell Your Story

Big data doesn’t necessarily mean good data. This presentation, created Aug 25 2015, makes us realize that bad guys have the good data and it enables them to keep attacking successfully. (It’s a 47 minutes presentation)

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Uber Hires Charlie and Chris, the Famous Vehicle Hackers

As Uber grows, they are looking at further developing autonomous, self-driving cars, and they hired the famous vehicle hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, to hopefully make those vehicles strongly hacker resilient. Car hacking is very possible and the dangers … Continue reading

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Business Email Compromise Leads to $737,000 Transfer to China

The FBI classifies “phishing that leads to loss” as Business Email Compromise (BEC). In a recently released story that closely matches the BEC hack in Omaha I wrote about back in February, another company fell victim to a spearphishing attack … Continue reading

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Third U.S. Federal Circuit Court Allows FTC to Sue You

If you have poor infosecurity practices and you know it, the FTC now (as of 8/25/2015) has the power to sue you. Wyndham Wordwide, whom have licensed their brand name through 90 independently owned hotels, has been hacked and had … Continue reading

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SpearPhish Your Phamily and Phriends!

I tried InfoSec Institute’s Phishing service, and here is how it played out! Over the past couple of days, while having some discussions regarding social engineering at work, I stumbled across this service. The InfoSec Institute provides phishing as a … Continue reading

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Your Data From Ashley Madison Was Leaked

A new phishing scam, to out cheaters, is being played out by bad actors. A phishing scam like the one below is being sent in mass in both phishing and spear phishing. Unfortunately, your data was leaked in the recent … Continue reading

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Beau’s First Birthday Pictures!

For Beau’s first birthday ever, a handful of people flew in. Mom, Auntie Nila, Agnes, and Lorri. The pictures in the gallery are of the whole weekend from Carmelo and Jaime’s perspective, so there are some that aren’t Beau related.

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