Should You Panic or Stay Calm? It could just be me but I doubt it. I’ve certainly had my share of attempts to attack my accounts including the SIM Jacking I documented (3 Minutes to Financial Ruin). But since the vast majority of these attacks are automated with the perpetrators using tools that essentially automate […]
3 Minutes to Financial Ruin This past week I found myself subject to a SIM Jacking attack. A reasonably sophisticated attempt to wrestle control of someone’s life, typically for money, although in some cases it can be for high-value digital assets (like a Twitter handle back in 2012). But even in those cases […]
This week I am talking to Phil Curtis (@philtalks), Director at First–Thirty (@1stThirty) who is merging his knowledge and experience in the space industry together with personal experiences in healthcare to help ideas become solutions and businesses. Phil developed Type 1 Diabetes early in life following a bout of Measles that left his insulin production […]
Additional Cybersecurity Threats from COVID19 This week I am talking to Ryan Witt, Managing Director of the Healthcare Industry Practice at Proofpoint. Proofpoint who have new findings on an email-based attack campaign employing health-related lures and impersonating health institutions. The research indicates a growing sophistication in personalized attacks meant to steal money and data, and infect […]
Don’t Let Your Guard Down It seemed perfectly legitimate and was cleverly assembled into a request from someone I do know in my network, had met and we had communication in the past…. but it was not Over the course of the next 90 minutes, I managed to compromise 3 separate accounts of my own […]
Humans the Weakest Link in Security As humans, we are programmed with compassion and a desire to help but this human nature is the foundation of many of the risks that we are exposed to in the digital and cloud filled data world we all inhabit now. Our personal programming and desire to help […]
Secure Your Digital Life I can’t tell you the number of times I hear people tell me there’s no need to worry about being hacked – why would anyone ever be interested in me Well that’s true they are not, but they are interested in your accounts, your identity, and your money and they get to […]
The Challenge of Security for Humans In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences I am talking to one of the leaders in that space and especially Social Engineering Chris Hadnagy (@HumanHacker), CEO & Co-Founder of Social-Engineering.com (@SocEngineerInc) and author of several books on the topic including a new one due out this summer ”Social […]
In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences, I am talking to one of the leaders in the space of security and the innovator who created and runs the outstanding security resource HaviBeenPwned (HIBP) Troy Hunt (@TroyHunt). He is an author of multiple top-rated courses on web security on Pluralsights and highly sought after speaker. The Ethics […]
Secure Your Accounts Today No better example of simple security preventing what would have been at best a major disruption of my account or at worse a loss of control and embarrassment than last night I was joining the #HCLDR tweetup when I received notification on my phone Someone was trying to login to my account […]
