Author: Cyber Al

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin One of our most popular CyberHoot Tweets is a simple definition of Ransomware. We continue …

October is National CyberSecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). It is a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. CyberHoot is helping further the mission …

“It had a devastating effect on our office, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, until this morning when they got us up running, we were not able to see half of our patients …

Most of us have tethered our mobile phones to our laptop dozens to hundreds of times.  Have you ever worried about a hacked charging cable? Security researchers have discovered hacked …

Cyber “Events” that Shape History Only a few events in the history of “Cyber” and “Security” cause security professionals sit back, meditate, and try to understand the implications of that event.  …

Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMB’s) are attacked fifteen times more often than smaller firms (>10 employees) and larger firms (<100 employees).  In 2018 they accounted for 43% of all security …

Image Source Privacy legislation has expanded significantly in the last two years with the publication and enforcement of the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). In Jan. 2020, the California …

The latest way hackers are breaching your private information is by using malicious Quick Response codes, more commonly referred to as a QR Code. QR codes were first created back …

CyberHoot received notice today that our Café Press account had been breached along with 23 million other accounts. Fortunately, no password data was reported stolen. However, phone numbers, home addresses, …

On July 29, Capital One announced it experienced a data breach affecting over 100 million customers. While that is an enormous number it represents only 1.4% of nearly 8 billion …

Remember the last time you had to recover access to an account by resetting your password. Maybe it was last month, week, or maybe it was today.  Now remember what …

How Phishing Attacks Work An easy example of how phishing attacks work is to take a look at a case that has already happened; a phishing attack utilizing Google Docs …

Overview: On May 14, Microsoft issued a software update patch for its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). These patches fixed RDP vulnerabilities in older Windows operating systems including Windows Server 2008, …

Editors Note: This is a reprint of an article I wrote for New Hampshire Business Review in June 2017 outlining the need to make cybersecurity education part of our school …

We’re all familiar with using passwords and some are experienced with password managers, but they aren’t always the best way to secure your critical accounts. If you’re using a password …

Overview In May of 2019, medical testing company, Quest Diagnostics had their second data breach in three years, where 11.9 million customer’s personal information was compromised. The breach likely came …

It’s Friday before a long weekend and hackers are up to their old tricks! Hackers just love to hack into our email accounts before a long weekend to give themselves …