A journal of blank pages that you keep under lock and key when you’re not actively using it. This approach has a lot of security potential, but it’s not very…
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For routine uses, I recommend “Darik’s Boot and Nuke” (DBAN) using the “DoD Short” method. Darik’s Boot and Nuke – Wikipedia But, if you have any personal information that you…
I’m not sure about Dashlane, but I can help you figure it out. Password managers are under constant attack. You want a team of skilled and motivated people quickly responding…
The motivations for releasing malicious code onto the public Internet fall into four broad categories: Political ambitions of a nation/state: Good examples are NotPetya and Shamoon, both of which are designed to destroy…
As the Shamoon and NotPetya disk wiper malware have shown, an infected computer in a business context can be so compromised that it’s effectively destroyed. In many documented cases, organizations…
While cyber-attacks cannot kill tens or hundreds of millions of people in a single action, they are more dangerous in other ways. One particular way would be to silently undermine…
A top concern is, “do I have a false sense of security?” In other words: Are all my controls working properly? Any malfunctions, like a door that doesn’t close all…
Xfinity hotspots are a brand of public WiFi. And all public WiFi has this in common: It’s someone else’s network, and you can’t quickly know whether it’s safe or not….
Q: What are the key topics you would cover in your initial one-hour basic training program on security for non-IT personnel? AND What sort of additional security related training might…
We’re continuing in our series of blog posts that cover some of the most common questions I get asked about cybersecurity. Here are the last few weeks of questions in…