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Phishing is the act of sending an email that attempts to fool the recipient into believing the email is from a trusted source in order to gain something from them. What's to gain? Usually Credit card numbers and/or usernames/passwords. cybercriminals have become very good at the practice and this…

For people who know me, they know that my primary goal is to make a positive dent on the world through fighting the bad guys of cybersecurity. They know this because I often ask them how they are protecting themselves in the cyber world. I make a point to recommend that they use a Password…

CYBER SECURITY MONTH Cybercrime is widespread and affects organizations and individuals in every industry and geography. Earlier this year, CNBC reported the total cost of cybercrime in 2017 was estimated at $600 billion or .8% of global GDP [1]. Nothing less than an all-hands-on-deck approach is…

Technology Overview Network Configuration Protocol, better known as NETCONF, gives access to the native capabilities of a device within a network, defining methods to manipulate its configuration database, retrieve operational data, and invoke specific operations. YANG provides the means to define…

Just yesterday my phone auto-synched 50 (yes, 50- no shame) pictures of my dog to Dropbox and I uploaded my personal budget for the month to Google Drive. We do this sort of thing without thinking- and sometimes without even opening an app. We use the cloud without a second thought. In fact, a…

If you are sufficiently old, you may recall Casey Kasem, DJ and radio personality, who for decades ran a show called the American Top 40 where he would recap the Billboard Magazine ranked top 40 pop songs. We’re going to try to channel some of his long running magic (he announced his retirement…

Having worked in cyber security for my entire career, I've been asked by many, mostly younger, people, how to enter into this space and make a positive contribution. This normally produces a long winded, meandering, poorly defined answer from myself, attempting to touch on all the parts of my…

Cyber security seems to be constantly in the headlines from Target’s massive point-of-purchase system hack and the impressively huge Equifax breach to speculation that teenagers, the Russians or some other nation state may have tampered with elections. There is one thing for sure, cyber security…