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Hobby Hackers: Their Randomness is Dangerous
They weren't looking for you, but they found you anyway. The most dangerous hacker might not be a criminal mastermind. It might be a bored teenager in another time zone,…
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Organized Crime: Crime as a Service
When "GoodFellas" Use Computers Most of us view Organized Crime through the lens of the most popular gangster films - period pieces from the "Godfather" trilogy through "Goodfellas" and "The…
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Hacktivists: When Your Business Becomes Their Statement
You Don't Have to Be Wrong to Be a Target “Social justice warriors” are persons or groups who actively fight for causes they feel create systemic inequity, unfairness, or disservice…
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AI or No AI, it’s Still About Proactive Cybersecurity
Let's talk AI in cybersecurity You've probably heard it by now: AI-powered, predictive cybersecurity. It's worth asking, "predictive based on what?" The discussion in cybersecurity circles generally goes like this:…
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Nation State Hackers: The Cyber World Becomes the New Battlefield
It’s in the news almost every week: cyber-attacks on public infrastructures, military installations, government offices, private businesses and more, all attributed to unfriendly nations. As of this writing, the most…
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Industrial Spies: Yes, Someone Is Spying On You
When we think of “Industrial Espionage,” we may picture a James-Bond type scaling walls, breaking into offices, and cracking safes to steal things like the microfilm for secret weapon plans.…
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TLS Certificate Lifetimes Are Shrinking
Author: Jarret Hinrichs, CTO, Guardian Infrastructure Solutions Manual Management Will Not Keep Up. There's a digital credential behind every HTTPS service your organization exposes. It proves the service is who…
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Financial Threat Actors: The Cybercriminals Hiding In Your Inbox
Financial Crime Gangs no longer burst in wearing masks and waving pistols to steal bags of cash. They sit behind keyboards miles away, expertly hacking your company and easily transferring…
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Your Website Has an Expiration Date.
Most business owners don't know it. There's a credential behind your website that most of the people in your company don't think about. It sits behind your domain, your client…
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After the Breach? Here Comes the Lawsuit
The fallout from a cybersecurity breach Suffering a cybersecurity breach is bad – obviously. It goes far beyond the IT department and affects every part of the business. Operations are…
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Texas Businesses – Let’s Learn About SB 2610
Legislation provides small and medium businesses data breach liability relief By Chuck Smith, President & CEO, Guardian Infrastructure Solutions Texas small and medium sized businesses are in a bind with…
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Patches – We Need a Better Way to Depend on You
If you’re old enough, you may remember R&B singer Clarence Carter’s 1970 hit “Patches” – about a farming family struggling to survive. Its chorus had the famous words: “Patches, I'm…
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