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Lifelock and Menard

Radio hosts reading commercials often try to sound live and ad libbed (a “live read”) when doing commercials.   Its one thing when discusing how great Snapple is, its another thing when discussing a...

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CyberSecurity Awareness Month

October is designated Nation CyberSecurity Awareness Month by the National CyberSecurity Alliance and the Department of Homeland Security.  This month, I will be focusing on awareness topics....

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Be Smarter than John

Hilarious video from F-Secure.  I’ve got people emailing their credit card numbers clear text.   Perhaps this might get the message across. The post Be Smarter than John appeared first on Roger's...

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The Doggie Door of Information Security

Police have warned Los Angeles residences of an increase in reports of thieves breaking into a home through doggie doors. Doggie doors are a hole cut in a door or wall to allow pets unrestricted...

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SANS Special security awareness promotion for SME orgs

SANS’ Securing the Human has a special deal for small and midsize business (up to 750 users). Through July 15th you can get their Security Awareness training for 3k.   More info at http://bit.ly/LJbotq...

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Yet Another Aitel Security Awareness Response

Users will click yes to anything, just so they can do what they want.   So it is easy to socially engineer them into saying yes to any prompt, oblivious that they are allowing malicious code to run....

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File Attachments, Security Awareness and Sophos

“We’ve done a pretty good job about teaching people not to open executable attachments in their email”, claims Sophos’ Chet Wisniewski in a recent YouTube video educating users about the dangers of PDF...

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Websense’s Operation SpearPhish

Today I received an email from Websense that asked “how good are you at caching a “phish”.   It was promoting their email security products and had a link to “take the Operation Spear Phish Challenge”....

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You are the target

People often think they don’t need to worry about security because they have nothing of value to an attacker.  In October Brian Krebs posted an updated chart on the value of a hacked computer. The...

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Wipe the Drive – Shmoocon 2013

At Shmoocon 2013, Jake Williams and Mark Baggett presented a talk on techniques for malware persistence. We all know the correct course of action with an infected computer is to wipe it and start over....

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Wanna Get Away – Generals Password

I see this was posted 3 months ago to Youtube, but its new to me.   Watch this video on YouTube. This being blogging, lets over-analyze. The General’s password is ihatemyjob1. Not a bad password....

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