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DEF CON: a Glimpse into the Largest IT Security Convention!
The largest, oldest, and most well-known convention for all things IT Security is DEF CON, which is currently being held in Las Vegas, Nevada! DEF CON began in 1993 as the first hacking convention. It was originally brainstormed as a going-away party for Platinum Net, which was an old hacking network once based in Canada.…
Read MoreNotPetya: the newest Ransomware Threat
Another wave of ransomware has been hitting companies, hospitals, airports, banks, and government systems alike around the world, substantially within the Ukraine, but also affecting computers in France, Denmark, and within the US. Kapersky Labs reported earlier that more than 2000 attacks have been noted thus far. Like other ransomware, NotPetya has locked down computer…
Read MoreSecurity for the SMB: Preventing a Business Nightmare
T-Mobile. Home Depot. Target. California State University. All are large organizations that fell victim to expensive data breaches because of a third-party vendor, nor are they alone in that list! For any small to medium-sized business (SMB), there are two very important points to be aware of: 1) Small companies are, in fact, targets. Whether they…
Read MoreThe Tax Clock is Ticking
Phishing Scams Thrive on Deadlines and Fear Tax returns are soon due on Tuesday, April 18th, 2017, and with that looming deadline, the pressure is on to have everything done and filed correctly. All paperwork in order? All taxes accounted for? Employees all have their W-2s? It is a pressure that phishing scammers thrive upon.…
Read MoreCybersecurity in the New Administration
2016 has been a year, to say the least. With the loss of legends like David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman and Mohammad Alli, and of course a tumultuous presidential election leaving much of the nation divided, we’re just about ready to put this year to bed. However, we still have the better half of December…
Read MoreDo You Want to Work in Infosec or Win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
Is This a Resume or a Novel? 5 InfoSec Resume Tips I’ve come to the realization that we have many budding writers masquerading as Information Security professionals out there. Today, my InfoSec staffing company received a fifty-five page resume from a candidate. I’m not joking – 55 pages! In eighteen years of recruiting, this is…
Read MoreCybersecurity is Not Up for Debate
Taking a Look at Cybersecurity’s Future in Legislation With the presidential debates behind us, and the election day looming, the issue of cybersecurity still remains largely untouched. While a passing topic at some point in each of the debates, the only direct question ever addressing the issue was from the first debate. Moderator Lester Holt…
Read MoreJ.D. to M.D. to Cybersecurity
How Cybersecurity is Joining the Ranks of Top Paying Professions What do you want to be when you grow up? From a young age people are asked this question. Their answers change as they grow older, though many come to the same conclusion of a doctor or a lawyer. Understandable, as these are…
Read MoreRecruiters getting spammed!
I know what some of you are thinking, how do you like it now the shoe is on the other foot? Well I don’t but not only because I don’t like being spammed…. I mean who does? More because some of the stuff I get is the exact reason why all recruiters get tarred with…
Read MoreIT Phone Home
The Challenge of Connecting Mobile Apps to IoT Devices in Homes A challenge for home automation developers is how can something sitting in your home network, which is presumably on a private network behind a firewall hidden from hackers, be readily available to a mobile app which could be potentially anywhere in the world. When you receive the little…
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