Cybersecurity Blog

How to Protect Yourself & Your Wealth from the LastPass Hack  You may have already heard about the LastPass breach, victimizing one of the leading password management programs, not once, but twice in the past few months. LastPass recently updated information about the two breaches in a letter to users on the LastPass website. The First LastPass Breach Leads to...

I get asked at almost every keynote speech how the audience members can protect themselves, their families and their wealth personally. So I put together a series of videos to take you through some of the first steps. I hope this gets you started, and that I am lucky enough to meet you in person at a future speech! Freeze...

This post is a summary of a full interview about Russian Cyberattacks that John conducted with Bottomline Publications. As Russian cyberattacks increase, a bit of prep isn't paranoid The world is a bit on edge, wouldn't you say? With geopolitical tension escalating and Russian recruitment of members from REvil, a criminal computer-hacking organization, it's a good time to buckle down...

And Will Passkeys Permanently Marry You to Apple? Humans are weak and so are our passwords. We make easily memorizable (read: guessable) passwords that accidentally invite cybercriminals and identity thieves into our homes, offices and bank accounts like a neighbor for afternoon tea. The solution? Remove humans from the tea party. Enter Apple. At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference,...

Who thought that Anonymous vs Russia would be the top billing cyber event of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? We watch in horror and disgust as Russia continues its assault on the Ukrainian people. Tanks roll down streets, missiles are launched, neighborhoods are shelled and innocent civilians are killed. Some things never change in war. As each new conflict begins...

Smartwatches, holograms, self-driving vehicles — we may have just rung in the year 2022, but here on Earth, we’ve started to live (blindly) like the Jetsons in 2062. The latest technological advancement coming out of Orbit City, err, Silicon Valley is the face computer, wearable tech that will plunge users into the notorious “metaverse.”  Just saying the word metaverse makes...

No one has ever heard of your company. Let’s call it, COMPANY X. And you like it that way. In 57 years, you’ve never once shut down your mission-critical operations that fuel the US economy. YOU are an honest, satisfied employee of Company X, and although your security team hounded you with preachy posters in every ELEVATOR to never use...

The Facebook Breach Might Not Be What You're Thinking How many Facebook user records were just breached? The answer might surprise you. Zero. That's right, the 533 million records that were "scraped" off in the recent-headline-grabbing Facebook breach actually disappeared from their website in 2018 and 2019. Not 2021. It's just that Facebook never told us. Never notified us per...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdPk25c93M' format='16-9' width='16' height='9' custom_class='' av_uid='av-mo9up3' Capitol Attack Could Go Way Beyond a Physical Breach When Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol last week, hundreds of rioters gained unrestricted access to the offices of our Representatives and Senators . You can see one such invader sitting here in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. But we have to ask ourselves, did...