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Banking Social Engineering Scams are Alive and Well
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The easiest way for hackers to steal your money is to get you to help them do it. We are seeing attacks where the victim gets a text message supposedly from their bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction and asking the victim if it is legitimate. If the victim answers, the hacker goes into high…
Draft Kings Attack Recommendations
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Some users of the sports betting site Draft Kings discovered that they were locked out of their betting account and, more importantly, their bank accounts were drained. Learn how this happened and what you can do to minimize this risk. Note that this is attack is not limited to Draft Kings or sports book sites….
Compliance | Legal | User tips
Dark Patterns and the Law
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Dark patterns are techniques that web site operators, typically, use to make it more difficult to choose one option than another. For example, try to close your Amazon account or your Facebook account. It used to be that you had to call Amazon and they would try and talk you out of it. Now you…
Technical Debt
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Are you managing your technical debt? Do you even understand what technical debt is? Does your management and Board (if there is one) understand that unaddressed technical debt is like a bottle of nitroglycerin just waiting to be jarred in the wrong way. And we just saw a massive example (as in their technical debt…
CMMC | DIB | DoD | IT Infrastructure | User tips
Add 20-30 Points to Your SPRS Score
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For those of you who are DoD contractors (and even if you are not), here is one thing that you can do that will improve your security program and, if you are a DoD contractor, will add 20 or more points to your NIST SP 800-171 SPRS Score. Audio Video
Creating a PIEE/SPRS Account and Entering Your Score
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Here are two videos; the first one shows you how to create an SPRS account; the second shows how to enter a new score. NOTE: You will see that I got an error on the PIEE administrator role in the first setup. That may be due to the fact that I already have an account…