'Tis The Season To Be Careful - Holiday IT Security

by Jack Harasimowicz | December 14, 2017 | Security, Tools, Scams, cyber attacks

“The scams that we get all year long are the same scams that happen around the holiday season. It’s just that people are more apt to maybe fall for them during the holidays.”

This is a quote from Donna Gregory, the unit chief for the Internet Crime...

Critical Mac Security Flaw - The Bad News & the Good

by Chris Russo | November 29, 2017 | Security, News

You may have heard that a critical Mac security flaw was recently discovered.  In short, "bad people" can very easily gain full access to nearly any Mac running the latest version of the High Sierra macOS release.  Here is the ZDnet article for more...

Preparing for the Worst - Personal Security Problems as a New Reality

by Chris Russo | September 11, 2017 | Security, News, Data Breach, cyber attacks

I used to have a buddy who drove motorcycles. This particular guy had a prosthetic leg from an accident he had gotten into some years back. He patiently explained to me how he was really always careful, did all the right things, obeyed all the laws,...

Power Grid a Target for Hackers

I have some background in major utility information technology, so I'm going to be more quiet than usual on this particular issue (let's just say I've been talking about this for well over ten years), but I still want to spread the word around.

"P@ssW0rd123!" or "correct horse battery staple"?

by Jack Harasimowicz | August 08, 2017 | Security, News, cyber attacks

F0rg3t what you know about creating strong passwords, because the rules have changed. For over a decade we have been trying to make our passwords so random that we end up forgetting if it was a "?" or a "!" in the middle of this jumble of numbers...

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