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Watching our public foot print
Ok it is that time of year again, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. One of the biggest Social engineering tools is monitoring what people discard. Criminals of all colours look at the boxes you put out for collection. To the break and enter type criminals that 85" smart tv box says we just spent some big money. to the cyber criminal the box says tech and potential network weak spot. You can't keep all prying eye from seeing your new found toys but you can reduce the numbers. Load the boxes up and take them direct to the recycling centers. If you can store them wait till what the security experts call off peak shopping times. Basically not the holiday season as criminals scour neighborhoods watching the garbage for high value targets. if none of the above is available to you then put them out at the last possible moment. with the popularity of smart devices no longer is your home the target but your network is as attackers look for a wedge to access your network. Hope everyone has a great holidays and remember to be aware.
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Sep 15 •
Why do we care about Social Engineering Security?
One of the most significant aspects of any scam, hack, theft, or similar incident is social engineering. If we can train you to understand what it is, recognize it, and prevent it before it even begins, you can stop it before it causes harm. The question here is, what do you know about Social Engineering? If you have never heard about it, here is a quick video about it. We believe this is such a core to our understanding that we have created a course on it that you can grab in our classroom tab above.
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The scariest part of social engineering is that it doesn't need technology. People use it in their every day lives. There are attackers who do nothing more than reconnaissance for the those that carry out the attack. People will give up their passwords in everyday conversations without being asked if people know what to look for.
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Time is one of the most used tools in the attackers tool box. pre attack they draw out the time line so they can withdraw if they need to during the attack they rely on depriving you of time to react with thought. the biggest tool they use though if Familiarity with the victim the more they know and understand the victim better the chances of success.
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There is a shark in the water...^...
One problem with constantly focusing on security issues is that we become a negative voice. Every post is, "watch out for this", "these people are coming after you". I recently spoke with another podcast host who has the same problem. We decided that some, maybe not all, of the topics can be covered with a focus on hope or self-improvement vs. "the sky is falling". The other problem is that doom-and-gloom content gets more views. I would rather provide you with hope and a lifeboat than a finger pointing at a shark. What do you think?
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Awareness doesn't mean forgetting to live. just means being in touch with what is around you
Sep 26 •
Kids Privacy - How important is it?
I was watching a reel, which I will share, that discussed how companies intentionally collect and sell children's information gathered from apps. You can watch the reel here, but comment here what your thoughts are here :) https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1782Fn8FYC/
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With the amount most children are immersed in tech. we need to pay attention to the apps that are signed in. The app in the discussion posed as a legitimate security app. Online games are collecting the same information, and selling it as well as selling features of the games. The online world is hard to legalize and sadly there are many out their that will exploit it.
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