Catfishing Illegal? Spearfishing on Steroids?

Threatpost has the story  in Utah legislation work.   Let’s explain some catfishing: “The practice of catfishing often occurs in online dating or social-networking scenarios in which someone takes someone else’s personally identifiable information–such as photos, addresses, educational history or professions–to pretend to be that person to seem more attractive or interesting to people they … Read more

When SonicWall Gets Hacked What Chance Do You Have?

SC Magazine has the story – “SonicWall network attacked via zero day in its secure access solution”. Here is the formal SonicWall statement once they were notified by SC Media: SonicWall, whose product line includes firewalls; network security and access solutions; and email, cloud and endpoint security solutions acknowledged that an incident took place in a company … Read more

SolarWinds Hackers Hacked Multi-factor Authentication!!

Wait a second … I thought that MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) was set up to prevent some attacks? The Googleblog post from a couple of years ago: Security Google blog had some data that proved the efficacy of MFA in this image: So MFA (or 2FA Two Factor Authentication) does prevent a number of potential attacks. … Read more

Book Coming Soon Cybersecurity for Small businesses

Free Laptop webcam cover with signup to email list* The Book is for small business owners and others which wish to shore up their Cybersecurity Cybersecurity needs to get a “vaccine shot” Currently we have 70% maximum doing right thing Another reason attacks are getting worse We need a new shift in thinking to make … Read more