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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...

Grubman Shire Hack: REvil Scores a Blackmail Slam Dunk How much is basketball megastar Lebron James brand worth to hackers?  When you calculate it, Lebron's name earns him more than his game. And to the cybercriminals who orchestrated the Grubman Shire Hack, that kind of payday is worth jumping through some hoops. Consider what James makes off of his reputation...

Cybersecurity experts and privacy advocates like myself are stepping up to protect strong encryption standards, which are facing an all-out legislative assault from the current administration and the Senate. But we need the help of business leaders like yourself to maintain the privacy of your data. Here is an excellent excerpt from Joseph Marks of The Washington Post: “The bill, called the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJcT81kawc4' format='16-9' width='16' height='9' custom_class='' av_uid='av-mo9up3 Coronavirus Scammers Are After Your Stimulus Check Scammers and cybercriminals love to exploit the headlines. COVID-19 isn't the only pandemic affecting Americans - so are the scams that go along with it. Case in point: stimulus checks that will help Americans weather the COVID-19 pandemic are already being targeted by scammers, who take advantage...

Cybersecurity Virtual Office Key Links from the Webinar: ZOOM Sileo Security Video Password Managers Review Data Backup Physical/Cloud Backup  ZOOM Security & Privacy Page There is something great to be learned about cybersecurity from this pandemic. Preparing for a crisis before it happens is far less expensive than recovering after it happens. The U.S. saved several billions of dollars cutting...

The Trump administration has relaxed privacy requirements for telemedicine, or virtual doctor visits: medical staff treating patients over the phone and using video apps such as FaceTime, Zoom, Skype and Google Hangouts. The move raises the chances that hackers will be able to access patient's highly sensitive medical data, using it, for example, to blackmail the patient into paying a ransom...

What you need to know about Russia's 2020 election interference Last week, the director of national Intelligence (DNI), a Republican appointee, notified the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is indisputably tampering with the 2020 election similar to election interference in 2016. The intelligence community determined that Russia's efforts are to help see Trump reelected. Angered by the news, Trump fired...