Tag Archives: NCSAM

15th National CyberSecurity Awareness Month

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Carmelo

National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) – observed every October – was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. Week 1: Oct. … Continue reading →

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It’s National CyberSecurity Awareness Month

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Carmelo

Learn about potential extreme hackerness from an extreme, fictional story. The hacker uses social engineering tactics and hacks into many things in Pierce Brosnan’s character, Mike Regan’s life and tries to ruin every aspect of his life. It’s a crazy … Continue reading →

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Dyn Down by DDoS

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Carmelo

Dyn a company that provides dynamic domain name resolution (convert names into IP addresses) was threatened to shell out some bitcoin or else… Or else what? I’d like to call it an availability compromise, but in layman’s terms, an outage … Continue reading →

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CIS, Cybersecurity Tips for NCSAM

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Carmelo

I’ve worked a lot of places and it’s amazing how much I’ve observed that the basics are not adopted by everyone. Here’s a quick video from the Center for Internet Security (CIS)

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The Largest Distributed Denial of Service, EVER! (A Robot Knock-Knock Description)

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Carmelo

Denial of Service explained: Computers respond to network traffic, generally. If there was a computer on my network that wanted to talk to my computer, that computer would put out a request to talk to my computer over the network, … Continue reading →

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Happy #CyberAware Month

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Carmelo

Today is NOT ONLY the first day of October, the beginning of a whole month I justify that it’s okay to stuff my face with fun size Twix bars [whispers “Fuck Yeah“], it’s also National CyberSecurity Awareness Month! Not only … Continue reading →

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Don’t be a Billy: NCSAM

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Carmelo

A fun, old-ish video on Cyber security.

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Your Evolving Digital Life

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Carmelo

Click the graphic to learn more about NCSAM!

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Happy Two-Factor Tuesday!!!

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Carmelo

Check out some of my awesome posts on enabling Two-Factor What is Two-Factor? It’s something you know… like a password… and something you have, like an token generator or smartphone! That doesn’t mean have an easy to guess password though! You … Continue reading →

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month Weeks 1 & 2

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Carmelo

I’m on a mission to increase my Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits and what better way than promote National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Just like I’ve been posting, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Here are two videos I’ve … Continue reading →

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