Lets Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Safer Online
It’s Time to Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Much Safer Online With Safer Internet Day upon us, it’s time to have “The Talk.” The internet talk, that is. What’s the internet talk? It’s a candid conversation about how safe we’re really being when we go online, as opposed to how […] more…Lets Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Safer Online
It’s Time to Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Much Safer Online With Safer Internet Day upon us, it’s time to have “The Talk.” The internet talk, that is. What’s the internet talk? It’s a candid conversation about how safe we’re really being when we go online, as opposed to how […] more…Lets Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Safer Online
It’s Time to Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Much Safer Online With Safer Internet Day upon us, it’s time to have “The Talk.” The internet talk, that is. What’s the internet talk? It’s a candid conversation about how safe we’re really being when we go online, as opposed to how […] more…Lets Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Safer Online
It’s Time to Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Much Safer Online With Safer Internet Day upon us, it’s time to have “The Talk.” The internet talk, that is. What’s the internet talk? It’s a candid conversation about how safe we’re really being when we go online, as opposed to how […] more…Lets Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Safer Online
It’s Time to Have “The Talk” About the Internet: 7 Conversation-Starters for Staying Much Safer Online With Safer Internet Day upon us, it’s time to have “The Talk.” The internet talk, that is. What’s the internet talk? It’s a candid conversation about how safe we’re really being when we go online, as opposed to how […] more…Medical Care #FromHome: Telemedicine and Seniors
Medical Care From Home: Telemedicine and Seniors For weeks and even months now, millions of us have relied on the internet in ways we haven’t before. We’ve worked remotely on it, our children have schooled from home on it, and we’ve pushed the limits of our household bandwidth as families have streamed, gamed, and conferenced […] more…Entertainment #FromHome: How to start your own podcast
How to start your own podcast Start your own podcast? Why not? Instead of streaming someone else’s show, maybe it’s time to create one of your own. And a fine time to start a podcast it is. Podcasting once took a bit of effort to get into. The recording software, the hosting, and the equipment […] more…Ransomware Attacks: Cybercriminals Pinpointing Healthcare Organizations
No One is Invisible to Ransomware Attacks: Cybercriminals Pinpointing Healthcare Organizations In this challenging time, cybercriminals have their eyes on consumers and institutions alike. Malicious groups have increased their targeting of hospitals and healthcare entities to take advantage of deepening resource strain. Many of these groups are using ransomware attacks to compromise hospital systems, locking up patient records or vaccine research until a […] more…The Top Technology Takeaways From CES 2020
Another Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has come and gone. Every year, this trade show joins practically everyone in the consumer electronics industry to show off the latest and greatest cutting-edge innovations in technology. From bendable tablets to 8k TVs and futuristic cars inspired by the movie “Avatar,” CES 2020 did not disappoint. Here are a […] more…The Seven Main Phishing Lures of Cybercriminals
One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook is phishing. It first hit the digital scene in 1995, at a time when millions flocked to America Online (AOL) every day. And if we know one thing about cybercriminals, it’s that they tend to follow the masses. In earlier iterations, phishing attempts were easy to […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2019
Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Go Zebrocy Zebrocy was first observed being used as a Sofacy backdoor in 2015. However, the collection of cases where this tool has been used mean that we consider it a subset of activity in its own right. On the basis of this threat actor’s past behaviour, we predicted last […] more…ANZAC Day – Nurses of the Great War
ANZAC Day is a big deal to Australians and New Zealanders. With a different meaning to so many, it’s usually regarded as an unnecessary and sad loss of life in a British Empire backed bloodbath, or it’s the most memorable of losing military conflicts that defined both countries and shaped their futures. Remembrance celebrations for […] more…Maintenance: Wireless will be unavailable at some locations (Dec. 19)
PEOPLE AND LOCATIONS IMPACTED: All students, faculty and staff at the buildings listed in the notes. IT SERVICES IMPACTED: Wireless (psu, psuwirelesssetup, attwifi) SecNet DATE AND TIME: Service(s) will be affected from 5 AM ET on 12/19/18 until 7 AM ET on 12/19/18. NOTES: Buildings impacted: NittanyLionInn RecHall Pattee/Paterno BiomechanicsLab Carpenter Chambers EisenhowerChapel Forum Ihlseng […] more…Stolen Data from Chinese Hotel Chain and Other Illicit Products Sold in Deep Web Forum
by Fyodor Yarochkin (Senior Threat Researcher) We uncovered personally identifiable information (PII) stolen from a China-based hotel chain being sold on a deep web forum we were monitoring. Further analysis revealed that the stolen data was not only the PII of Chinese customers, but also included the hotel chain’s customers from Western and East Asian […] more…How Machine Learning Can Help Identify Web Defacement Campaigns
By Federico Maggi, Marco Balduzzi, Ryan Flores, and Vincenzo Ciancaglini Website defacement — the act of visibly altering the pages of a website, notably in the aftermath of a political event to advance the political agenda of a threat actor— has been explored in our various research works. We broke down top defacement campaigns in a […] more…Trojan watch
We continue to research how proliferation of IoT devices affects the daily lives of users and their information security. In our previous study, we touched upon ways of intercepting authentication data using single-board microcomputers. This time, we turned out attention to wearable devices: smartwatches and fitness trackers. Or more precisely, the accelerometers and gyroscopes inside […] more…More information
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