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Trick or Treat: 5 Cybersecurity Tips For Halloween

Oct 12, 2021
2 min

Trick or Treat: 5 Cybersecurity Tips For Halloween

As National Cybersecurity Awareness Month ends on Halloween, it presents the perfect time to remember some safety tips to keep the monsters, zombies, and mummies away from your network. According to the 2017 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study, sponsored by IBM, the global average cost of a breach is $3.62 million, with more than 24,000 records affected per breach. For many businesses, a breach hits the bottom line in more ways than one, with a breach costing a third of compani

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7 Reasons to Have Cyber Liability Insurance

Brian Carrico

Sep 7, 2021
2 min

7 Reasons to Have Cyber Liability Insurance

If you are like many, you are more connected today than ever before. From cell phones to digital personal assistants, our homes are wired to the max. Our phones are smart, our TVs are smart—even our appliances are often connected to Wi-Fi. While these connections bring many conveniences, they may also introduce additional cyber threats into your home. The threats of a computer virus or phony email may not be new concepts, but numerous other threats are emerging and occurring

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Crafting a Custom Dictionary for Your Password Policy

Brian Carrico

Jul 13, 2021
4 min

Crafting a Custom Dictionary for Your Password Policy

Modern password policies are comprised of many different elements that contribute to its effectiveness. One of the components of an effective current password policy makes use of what is known as a custom dictionary that filters out certain words that are not allowed as passwords in the environment. Using custom dictionaries, organizations can significantly improve their cybersecurity posture and filter out obvious passwords that provide poor security for user accounts. When

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Cyberattack hits world’s largest meat supplier

Brian Carrico

Jun 22, 2021
3 min

Cyberattack hits world’s largest meat supplier

June 1 was an eventful day for some. The world’s largest beef supplier has been hit with a ransomware attack, threatening some of the U.S. meat supply. The hack came less than four weeks after a similar one by Russian criminals against Colonial Pipeline, a major U.S. fuel supplier, prompted Colonial to shut down pipeline activity for five days and led to shortages at some gas stations. JBS, one of the world’s largest international meat processors, was hacked Sunday, the compa

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Colonial Pipeline ‘ransomware’ attack shows cyber vulnerabilities of U.S. energy grid

Brian Carrico

May 18, 2021
7 min

Colonial Pipeline ‘ransomware’ attack shows cyber vulnerabilities of U.S. energy grid

Last week, you may have heard: A major fuel pipeline that was shut down after a brazen cyberattack will probably come back online by week’s end, officials said Monday, as security experts warned that the nation must take more seriously persistent vulnerabilities in America’s aging energy infrastructure. The Colonial Pipeline running from Houston to New Jersey, supplying the East Coast with 45 percent of its fuel, was taken offline Friday after a hacker group known as DarkSide

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The Wages of Password Re-use: Your Money or Your Life

Brian Carrico

May 4, 2021
4 min

The Wages of Password Re-use: Your Money or Your Life

When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. When cybercriminals develop the same habit, it can eventually cost them their freedom. Our passwords can say a lot about us, and much of what they have to say is unflattering. In a world in which all databases — including hacker forums — are eventually compromised and leaked online, it can be tough for cybercriminals to maintain their anonymity if

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ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users

Brian Carrico

Apr 20, 2021
3 min

ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users

Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. The stolen data includes customer email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, license plate numbers, hashed passwords and mailing addresses. KrebsOnSecurity first heard about the breach from Gemini Advisory, a New York City based threat intelligence firm that keeps a close eye on the cybercrime forums. Gemini shared a new sales thread on a R

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Microsoft Exchange Cyber Attack — What Do We Know So Far?

Brian Carrico

Mar 9, 2021
4 min

Microsoft Exchange Cyber Attack — What Do We Know So Far?

Microsoft on Friday warned of active attacks exploiting unpatched Exchange Servers carried out by multiple threat actors, as the hacking campaign is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government entities in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The company said “it continues to see increased use of these vulnerabilities in attacks targeting unpatched systems by multiple malicious actors beyond HAFNIUM,” signaling an escalation that the breaches are no longer “li

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10 New Year’s Resolutions to Scam-Proof Your Life

Brian Carrico

Feb 2, 2021
2 min

10 New Year’s Resolutions to Scam-Proof Your Life

Simple ways to stay safe from fraudsters online and off in 2021 Out with the old and in with the new. Get a fresh start to 2021 by bolstering your defenses against the bad actors working around the clock to get their hands on your money or sensitive data. To keep them away, resolve to take these 10 steps: 1. Change your passwords. Create separate, complex passwords for each one of your important online accounts. 2. Require two-step authentication wherever available. That mean

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T-Mobile suffers another data breach, customer phone numbers, call records possibly accessed

Brian Carrico

Jan 5, 2021
2 min

T-Mobile suffers another data breach, customer phone numbers, call records possibly accessed

T-Mobile recently experienced a data breach in which some of its customers had their information, including “call-related information,” exposed to hackers. In a notice on its website, the telecom giant said a security incident occurred that saw “customer proprietary network information” (CPNI) improperly accessed. Some of the CPNI may include “phone number, number of lines subscribed to on your account and, in some cases, call-related information collected as part of the norm

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How to Protect Your Small Business From Cyber Attacks Right Now

Brian Carrico

Dec 29, 2020
4 min

How to Protect Your Small Business From Cyber Attacks Right Now

An annual report from Verizon found one type of breach makes up 30 percent of attacks on small businesses. Here’s what you need to know. For 13 years, Verizon has released its annual Verizon Business Data Breach Investigation Report, or DBIR, a comprehensive look at more than 150,000 incidents that gives business owners insight into trends in cyber attacks. As expected, the 2020 report took on more meaning: Unprecedented numbers of professionals are working from home, and sma

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Brian Carrico

Dec 22, 2020
8 min

Top 9 New Technology Trends for 2021

Technology today is evolving at such a rapid pace, enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the rate of change, until eventually it will become exponential. However, it is not only technology trends and top technologies that are evolving, a lot more has changed this year due to the outbreak of COVID-19 making IT professionals realize that their role will not stay the same in the contactless world tomorrow. And an IT professional in 2020-21 will constant

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