5 years ago I told nerds that we needed to brace for 6 months of a cyber crime spree and protect clients that choose to be protected. Little did I know that 5 years later, we would be in far more challenging landscape than ever. Welcome to TWINN #72 where in a few...
Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Let’s talk about phishing. The number of successful phishing incidents continues to grow year after year. In 2020, there were 241,342 incidents...
Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Let’s first address some repeat problems we see around services that are visible to the public internet. Let’s think about it like leaving doors...
Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Let’s talk about VPNs. Specifically the retail VPN service providers that supposedly offer security, anonymity, privacy, etc. For between $5-12/mo...
Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: First let’s talk about how you and I, just normal, productive people can be used as pawns by a nation state cyber criminals. We all want to...
Welcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Let’s briefly talk about network routers and their place in our insecure world. With a router’s position having one foot inside and one foot...
