As Ransomware become more prevalent, Insurance companies will add more requirements and stipulations for payout. If your company didn’t have the mitigations in place that they promised, there will be NO payout. This is typical Catch22; if you have the mitigations in place, you don’t need Ransomware insurance. Ransomware Baddies may not have the key …
Here I explore some alternatives to Insecure social media. Social media makes their money from selling your browsing history and brand preferences. Some counties have restrictions that personal data needs to stay in the country. Friendica distributed, federated social ActivityPub,Disporia,OStatus compatible Social and Microblogging Mastadon.social distributed, federated social ActivityPub,OStatus compatible Microblogging focus RocketChat like Slack …
I am not paid by any of these manufacturers. Firewall; Paid: Fortinet; industry leader. uses ASICs to offload tasks while still being energy efficient and inexpensive. Free: PfSense/OpnSense; based on BSD. Free failover / backup firewall. Installs on Intel based hardware so re-use and old desktop or buy a NetGate appliance. Switching; Use managed switches …
Some Simple Security Tests to get Small Businesses started Thycotic Weak Password finder; tests for LanMan, Weak hashes etc. and shows which of those accounts have Administrator privilege. https://thycotic.com/solutions/free-it-tools/weak-password-finder/ Wireshark LLMNR udp.port == 5355 (display filter) udp port 5355 (capture filter) Leave running for 1 hour + clients that send requests have “Netbios over TCP” …
It’s Tricky Tricking people is much easier than actual hacking, security professionals like to call this Social Engineering. Their best trick is to convince websites or companies to reset your password. Everyone forgets their password. We’ll cover safe places to write them later. To reset your password, websites collect some personal information that only you …
Why is my Wifi so slow?? If you have teenagers this is a recurring song. Today we look at easy ways to combat interference and speed up wireless. Foundational Knowledge (skip this if you don’t care why) Unlicenced Wireless is limited by law to 2 watts of power and a few hundred Megahertz of frequency …
Article DNS security filtering Quad9 is a free offering from an IBM led group of security organizations. OpenDNS made this type of service popular and Quad9 builds on that by making the service faster using AnyCast and a fleet of world-wide distributed DNS servers. This method makes it easy to protect your entire Home/Enterprise from …
Outbound Port filtering is a simple method to prevent users from accidentally giving away their credentials. Scenario: BadGuy sends a phishing email including a link to an internet server owned by BadGuy. User in your network is fooled into clicking on the link which is in the format \\server.LooksLikeMyDomain.NotReally\ShareName the users computer gladly reaches outside …
Browser Safety The security benefits of a good firewall have been universally accepted, the Red teams have focused attention on the next path of least resistance, which is the user. Gone are the days when we had a separate application for Mail, messaging etc. The Browser is the user’s 1 window into the internet. Get …
We don’t have budget for that! Today with the rise of Ransom-ware small businesses are not likely to get a second chance, the cost of a single breach may be overwhelming.We will investigate cost effective ways to increase security without breaking the bank. Path of least resistance:People, your staff is BY FAR the …