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In the age of digital interconnectedness, passwords have become the first line of defense against cyber threats. Unfortunately, many individuals still rely on weak, easily guessable passwords that leave their online accounts vulnerable to attacks. This article delves into the most commonly used a...

Information is Power as they say. Information refers to data that has been processed, organized, or structured in a way that makes it meaningful and useful. It can be understood as knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance. “Fact” being the operative word. In...

Real-estate fraud experts warn that AI advancements and the abundance of publicly available information has made scammers more daring in their attempts at deed or title theft. These fraudsters are targeting a wide range of property owners from residents of big mansions to individuals with simpler...

I received a sextortion email, to my actual inbox, not in spam, addressed specifically to me, with my name, my address, my phone number, and the worst part, a picture of my home.Here’s how it began:Subject line: Robert Siciliano“Robert Siciliano,I know that calling 617329XXXX or visiting (my actu...

Are you doom scrolling? Do you find yourself obsessively checking your feeds? Does the election have you pinned to an anxiety rating of 10? Are you logging into your social media accounts and wanting to go to battle with every idiot who posts a dumb meme counter to your beliefs? Are you only read...

Over the years criminals occasionally contact me to tell me about their exploits and often ask how they can get into the “security awareness” business. Everyone wants to be a Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can movie). These crimes are often sociopaths and incapable of functioning normally withou...

Maybe company executives who don’t engage in real world security awareness training should suffer the consequences for their insufficiency.An excellent Help Net Security article is titled “What CISOs need to keep CEOs (and themselves) out of jail” discusses many of the fundamentals of cyber secur...

The primary intention behind artificial intelligence (AI) generated spam on social media appears to be financial gain through deceptive means. Facebook algorithms are suggesting users to visit, view and like pages that are 100% artificially intelligent generated photos of people, places, and thin...

K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First came love, then came marriage, then came the baby in the baby carriage! Sucking his thumb, wetting his pants, doing the hula - hula dance! And the BABY is a Boy!The Yahoo Boys. The Yahoo Boys are a notorious group of cyber criminals operating out of West Africa, primarily Nig...

It’s everyone. (It’s you too. Just read.) Security goes against our core beliefs. Security is not natural, it’s not normal, it means that we don’t trust others. However, we trust by default. Not trusting others is actually a learned behavior. Security means that you are aware that there are other...