Security

This morning I received a text message informing me that my California EDD Prepaid Debit Card was being suspended with a deposit of $6,390 until I verified my Bank of America credit card: If you don’t live in California, this screams scam; but if you live in California and work with the CA EDD this…

On December 2nd, 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reported that an Iran-linked hacking group had been targeting US critical infrastructure, specifically US Water Facilities. Two harsh realities made this hack possible. First, system misconfigurations allowed systems to be publicly accessible via the internet vs. limiting its access to their intranet. Second, administrators used weak…

We spend a lot of time talking about the tools at our disposal to prevent hacks. Tools like security plugins, or cloud-based WAF’s, but we need to remember that security is a cyclical process. A comprehensive thought process forces us to be be considerate of all security domains – Protection, Detection, Response. In this article…

This is a public service announcement for all users to be aware of an active scam happening right now that is targeting instagram users. This is a nasty, but effective, social phishing campaign that takes advantage of a relationship you have online. It starts with a simple request. Who doesn’t want to help a friend grow their online…

Rarely do you wake up thinking to yourself, “wonder how my DNS is doing today?” but I can guarantee it’s been the root cause of one, or two, sleepless nights, “gah, DNS again… grrrrr“. There is no better example than today’s outage with Register.com and Network Solutions in which customers were told to expect outages…

NOC.org was built to be a networking platform that aggregates the various tools Daniel and I personally need, and use, to manage our own digital portfolios. It was built by network and system administrators for network and system administrators, so yes, we fully expect a more technical audience to appreciate it’s simplicity and application. The…