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Smishing and Vishing: Scammers are targeting your cell phone
Are you familiar with the terms smishing and vishing? They’ve been around for a few years now, but they’re not as common as email phishing and haven’t been given as much attention. Both smishing and vishing are variations on the phish theme: smishing...
Poo-Poo on Poo – Cyberattack arrest highlights risk
WASHINGTON — How did a hacker in Malaysia manage to penetrate a computer network operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland? And what was the same accused cybercriminal doing this summer when he allegedly tapped into the secure computers of a large...
Obama Wants Internet Security Czar
President Barack Obama wants to ramp-up Internet security with the establishment of a czar to oversee privacy. The administration plans a stronger legal effort to protect Internet privacy -- including new laws and creation of a new position to oversee...
CAPTCHA Implemented
Just a quick note to let you know that I have finally been able to implement a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) solution for our blogs. This should effectively stop all the spam comments.  If the...
Happy SysAdmin’s Day!
Since Ted Kekatos, a SysAdmin in the Chicago area suggested the day, to the first celebration on July 28, 2000. System Administrator Appreciation Day has become the one day a year set aside to show your appreciation for those people who keep all your...
Kudos to Obama for Appointing a Cybersecurity Czar
Those who know me, know that I don’t approve of much of what the Obama Administration has done so far; however I have to give the new POTUS kudos on a job well done, by creating the position of a “Cybersecurity Czar” President Obama spoke today about...
China irks US with computer security review rules - Technology | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
This one just makes you scratch your head and say, why?! Considering I spend a portion of my day stopping Chinese hackers (among other countries) from entering Axcess' network illegally, its strange why we would want to provide the Chinese government...
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck...unless it's a PITMA.
I had the opportunity (and pleasure) to attend a Roundtable Discussion this morning with some of the most well known Domain Name System (DNS) Experts in the world, including Dr. Paul Mockapetris (inventor of DNS), Cricket Liu (author of many DNS books...