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

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

How About A Cybersecurity Framework By NIST

NIST is the National Institute of Science and Technology and CSF is the Cybersecurity Framework.  There are manypdf’s (v1.1) on this topic, but the changes in versions are not my focus.  Although I did cover this a small bit in a post from 2014: https://oversitesentry.com/cybersecurity-framework-by-nistnational-institute-of-standards-and-technology/ at that point NIST had the major points but not … Read more

Cybersecurity – Where do we go from here?

Let’s list some of the problem areas: Ransomware Phishing Backups – Restore Remote Access Cloud Computing Awareness Issues – Training If you do not prepare for the future then it will create surprises when you least expect it   or the future may make changes in ways that you will not appreciate. An example of this … Read more