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Friday, May 1, 2015

Preventing Phishing Attacks | How to Protect Your Information Online

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To this day, entering personal information online makes many of us feel uneasy. In fact, I sometimes find myself paying certain bills by submitting a hand-written check through the mail. In a personal attempt to prevent phishing attacks, it makes sense.  Now, some may call this old-fashioned method a waste of time. Maybe it's even being too paranoid or merely an under-utilization of technology’s modern-day user experience. What can I say, old-fashioned ways tend to have a better ability to prevent phishing attacks!

Friday, March 27, 2015

Cyber Attack Defense: Are you a potential target?













The simple answer is yes. It seems that everyone is a potential target these days. Recently, even a major health insurance provider announced that they had been breached. Clearly, they lacked appropriate cyber attack protection. I would know, I am one of the 78.8 million people who got the letters in the mail. What were they saying? That they are doing everything they possibly can to ensure that my information is being protected. Great, now I get to join the countless people who suffer a successful cyber attack!

You may ask yourself: why me?

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Defending against the Man in the Middle


I remember as a child trying to eavesdrop on conversations I would hear in school. They usually were centered around who kissed whom or who had a crush on someone. As an adult, like most others, I still listen in on other people’s conversations from time-to-time. Usually this happens when you’re standing in line somewhere, and it is hard to not listen in on the people next to you. After talking with a colleague over the weekend about man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, I found some similarities to the more typical activity of eavesdropping on others conversations.