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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Cyber Monday is Tomorrow, Please be Cyber Secure
Be sure to stop and think about where you are when you are out and about, don’t use public wifi hotspots. It’s cyber hunting time and your data is the target and it is very easy for malicious evil doers … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, infographic, NCSAM, phishing, Security Awareness
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1st Duqu. Next came Stuxnet. Now Regin.
An “extremely complex” and “stealthy” Stuxnet Equivalent spying program has been stealing data from ISPs, energy companies, airlines and research-and-development labs. Regin is a multi-staged threat and each stage is hidden and encrypted, with the exception of the first stage. … Continue reading
Jaime’s Birthday!
My sweet little wife had her birthday and we went to Zoolights with the family to celebrate! Jaime, Pat, Courtney, and Beau have never been before. So it was nice bringing everybody to check out the awesome ZooLights at the … Continue reading
Need a New Password? Try Passweird
Passweird is a fun and interesting way to generate a password that meets most regulatory compliance password requirements. In other news, Cyber thieves have started targeting the password managers, like KeePass.
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Tagged 2014, compliance, lol, passweird, password, password generator, password managers, passwords
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Chinese Made eCigarette USB Malware Phones Home
It was found that some Chinese made eCigarettes and their USB charging cables, have been made with malware built right in. When plugged into a computer, it phoned home. Is this a true story or a hoax? Hard to tell … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, badusb, ecig, ecigarette, malware, usb, vape
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Google Infographic on Account Hijackers
They have a great article here for more information.
Posted in Security Blog
Tagged 2014, hackers, Information Technology Security Awareness, phishing, Security Awareness
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Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard version 3.0
I’ve been doing some extensive studying for the PCI DSS v 3 and there is a vast improvement on the requirements. There are 6 goals of PCI Remove sensitive authentication data and limit data retention. This milestone targets a key … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, credit card, data security standards, guidance, help, PCI Compliance, requirements, security standards council
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CryptoWall and Dickson County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff’s department of The Dickson County, Tennessee was attacked by a Ransomware trojan ware that encrypts all of the files on the system and can be decrypted only (HA, yeah right!) if the ransom has been paid for them to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, cryptowall, Dickson County, encryption, malware, ransomware, Sheriff, Tennessee
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