OR No Hate Mail, Please – You Need To Hear This Julian Assange. Colonial Pipeline. Edward Snowden. What do they all have in common? All involved the compromise of weak passwords and little social engineering. I Know Your Password – Comedian Michael McIntyre nailed it. You’ve likely taken a capitalized dictionary word, added a number then an (!). If that resembles […]
Read MoreOR Live, Work, but Don’t Repeat I had to plug in my Serious Keyboard for this post. When the dust settles and some semblance of normal has returned, it is time to understand what happened, how it happened, and how to prevent or mitigate a repeat. However, many small to medium businesses are not so […]
Read MoreOR The Unintended Vice of Ignorance Part 2 – During the Attack – Who Dat? Who Dere? WARNING: Due the seriousness of the material, stickers have been added to lighten the mood. The phone rings on Saturday morning. Why, it’s Marvin from the office and he sounds nervous. He reports that a computer has a ransomware message on the […]
Read MoreOR, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Tape Part 1 – Intro and Prep Ransomware is probably the scariest and most disruptive thing an organization can face short of an IRS audit. Though you would be better off with the audit, as the typical ransom to release data is $233,000, not including […]
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