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Category Archives: Security Blog
SNOWDEN
There are a lot of mixed feelings regarding the Edward Snowden on social networks I frequent.
Posted in Security Blog
Tagged 2016, Edward Snowden, fact or fiction, hacker movies, movie, privacy, risk
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Phishing Outlook Looks Legitimate
When an attacker is using Microsoft Office 365’s Outlook paired with Microsoft Lync, it makes phishing emails look authentic and harder to detect without really checking it out. See graphic below.
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Tagged 2016, FBI, phishing, security, Security Awareness, spearphishing
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Eating 20% Fat Beef or 80% Lean Beef… A Google Android Problem
You know, it’s really how you frame something to make it sound almost appealing. Lots of grocery stores sell beef and it’s labeled as lean, but you know it has a lot of fat content if you were to flip … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, android, Google, MDM, metrics, Mobile Device Management, reporting, Security Awareness
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2016 = 2015 + 10%… In Breaches!
The Identity Theft Resource Center reports that there has been a total of 269 data breaches recorded through April 19, 2016, and that more than 11.27 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year. A data breach … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, breach, Security Awareness
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Did you hear about the FDIC data breach?
Thanks to DLP (data loss prevention) software, the FDIC caught 44,000 customer records getting copied to a USB drive on an employee’s last day of work. She legitimately used the customer records normally as part of her day-to-day and while … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, breach, Congress, data breach, Data Loss Prevention, DLP, FDIC, removable media, Security Awareness, usb
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The Law Firm Mossack Fonseca (The Panama Papers)
Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca has services which include incorporating companies in offshore jurisdictions such as the British Virgin Islands. Other services include wealth management… Kinda sorta like how HSBC does things… Mossack Fonseca’s data leak reveals the hidden wealth … Continue reading
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Tagged data, HSBC, leaks, Mossack Fonseca, panama, panama papers
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Uptime Funk You Up!
Here are the lyrics so you can sing along. This bit Uncontrolled A bad bug, Make my system fold This bug, in the kernel My kernel My uptime ceases Freakin’, Spazzin’ My manager’s mad, it ain’t pretty I need caffeine, … Continue reading
MedStar Health
It’s assumed that MedStar Health is a victim of crypto-ransomware as MedStar forced a shutdown of their email and records database yesterday in order to stop the spread of the malware from encrypting more systems. Most operations went back to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, cryptography, encryption, fraud, phishing, ransomware
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