CyberSecurity
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Free COVID-19 Masks Arriving At People’s Homes Across The USA Are Likely Part Of A Cyber Scam
February 7, 2021People living in many different areas of the USA are reporting receiving to their homes in...
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La Cybersécurité pour les Nuls: Best-Selling “Cybersecurity For Dummies” Book Now Available In French
February 3, 2021Cybersecurity For Dummies, the best-selling cybersecurity guide written by Joseph Steinberg for general audiences, is now...
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Online Retailers That Cancel Purchases Continue To Utilize Personal Information Gathered During The Attempted Transactions
February 2, 2021While we have become somewhat accustomed to the data collection practices of online retailers seeking to...
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Keyless Car Entry Systems May Allow Anyone To Open And Steal Your Vehicle
January 28, 2021Hands-free car-entry systems that allow people to unlock their car doors without the need to push...
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Joseph Steinberg Appointed To CompTIA Cybersecurity Advisory Council
January 25, 2021Long-time cybersecurity-industry veteran, Joseph Steinberg, has been appointed by CompTIA, the information technology (IT) industry’s nonprofit...
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We Must Condemn, Not Celebrate, The Download of Parler’s Data: Hacker Vigilantism May Even Help Criminals More Than Law Enforcement
January 19, 2021Last week, shortly before Amazon took the Parler social network offline by terminating the latter’s hosting...
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Small Business Are Suffering Breaches – And Going Bust – Because They Don’t Have Access to Cyber-Threat Intelligence
January 12, 2021In the context of cybersecurity, threat intelligence refers to information about hostile actors and/or the threats...
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Images Of Government-Issued IDs Should Not Be Trusted For Authentication
January 11, 2021Government Issued identity documents (IDs), such as passports and drivers’ licenses, may be appropriate forms of...
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Banning President Trump From Social Media May Seem Moral, But It Is Both Wrong And Threatens Our Democracy
January 9, 2021Back in 2019, I wrote that lawmakers must prohibit social media platforms from banning anyone for...
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Every Computer and Smartphone in the Capitol Should be Considered Compromised and Dangerous
January 7, 2021While much of the security-oriented focus regarding the storming of the Capitol building by protesters yesterday...