JDSupra among other ezines on the Internet have cataloged the Lewis & Clark College in Portland hack Basically in March 2023 the administrators or others at the college learned that there was unauthorized access of their computer systems. Today 2 years later a story came out in the 2600 magazine “the Hackers Quarterly” The article … Read more
How? With training and security policies. Create a security culture and train your employees with a Security Policy. Train the employees to ensure they understand the security policy Here is a page at Fixvirus.com that discusses how to start a security policy: Also at the US Chamber of Commerce Here is relevant text from Chamber … Read more
Quishing – the QR code that sends you to download bad stuff Let’s go back to what is a QR code from digital.gov? QR codes (or Quick Response codes) are two-dimensional codes that you can scan with a smartphone. The code contains information, usually a site address, and once you scan it, the … Read more
why discuss now? This is the FBI 5 Unit61398 From left, Chinese military officers Gu Chunhui, Huang Zhenyu, Sun Kailiang, Wang Dong, and Wen Xinyu indicted on cyber espionage charges. Above Wanted notices included to show this is not an aberration but a consistent policy by CCP. I have written about Chinese PLA (People’s … Read more
What would be the Top 3 items to consistently work on so that cybersecurity does not have to be worried about. (Main image above is the Cottage Health systems picture back when they had a security issue https://oversitesentry.com/health-records-breached-no-cyberinsurance-payout-why-stupidity/ May, 2015 post). I.e. if one works on these Top3 items then cybersecurity in general will be … Read more