Risks Around Open Source Software
Everyone uses it. Including me. But free doesn’t mean bug free and it also doesn’t mean malware free, as Amazon recently learned. Learn more.
Do You Know What a Quishing Attack is? Hackers Do!
Quishing is the act of using malicious QR codes to launch a cyber attack and, apparently, it is very popular. So popular the FBI and the FTC are sending out alerts. Why is it popular? Listen and find out.
Cryptocurrency is Ripe for Cyberattacks
Cryptocurrency is basically a very sophisticated IT infrastructure. One that is not regulated very much and one which can have devastating financial impact to people if it is compromised. And it is being compromised daily. Don’t bring a spoon to a fork fight – learn what some of the risks are so you can better…
Using Voice to Authenticate You is Risky
The CEO of OpenAI is echoing what I have been saying for years and that is that using your voice to authenticate you, for example for access to your bank account, is risky and that shortly any OpenAI customer will be able to spoof that, maybe for $20 a month. Learn more at the links.
Google Adds Android Privacy Feature
We all know that the big platforms track absolutely everything that we do. Now Google has added a feature to Android to reduce that tracking but I dare you to find it. The feature is not a magic fix but still a good tool. If you want to reduce Google’s tracking of you, you should…
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Security News Update for April 20, 2025
Security News Update for April 20, 2025 This week’s news includes:
What is a Shared Responsibility Model?
If you don’t know what this is and don’t have it documented for each of your external and cloud providers, the first step is to listen to this post. The second step may be to contact us for assistance. Ignoring it is not an option that will turn out well. It leads to outages and…
Impact of Cybersecurity on Mergers and Acquisitions
We often get asked about how a seller’s cybersecurity practices impact business valuation and related to that, how a lack of cybersecurity due diligence on the part of the buyer impacts overall risk. Here are two very public examples of that; one favorable to the buyer, the other favorable to the seller. If you are…
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Security News Update for January 19, 2025
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Creating a PIEE/SPRS Account and Entering Your Score
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…