It is pretty interesting what you find when you rummage around your computer. Most computers these days have cameras and microphones. Do you know which applications can access your camera? What about your microphone? I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know where to look to find the answer to that question. When I looked, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Those of you who have kids or think you still are a kid probably remember this song from Hoodwinked. Here in Colorado, we are in the middle of fire season. As of the writing of this post, the Pine Gulch fire is rapidly approaching 70,000 acres burned. The nearest a wildfire has come to my […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting list that CSO Magazine created. Create your own list first and see how many match. #1 – You see a ransomware message on your screen. Seeing a message like that can ruin your day and if it is one of the new ransomware 2.0 strains, your day just got really bad. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As hackers got better, so did developers. Multi-Factor authentication, a technique which requires something that you know, like a password and something that you have, like an SMS message on your phone, makes the lives of crooks harder, but far from impossible to attack and here is why. One way this is done is via […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dial back your wayback machine to September of last year. Capital One announced a hack of their Amazon environment by an ex-Amazon employee the previous July that was possible to due an incorrect configuration of their security settings. Fast forward to today and the feds announced an $80 million fine for bad cloud hygiene. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you didn’t know better you would think the NSA is trying to turn over a new leaf. Credit Anne Neuberger. A couple of years ago the NSA dissolved the Information Assurance Directorate – the group that helps the good guys. To me, this was an incredibly stupid move on the part of the NSA. […]
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