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The Security of Christmas
As 2022 comes to a close and we slow down to be with family and friends, we at the Carolina Cyber Center want to take a moment and reflect on the true meaning of the season and the hope of a secure future for those who believe. For us, our ultimate security came...
The Security of Christmas
As 2022 comes to a close and we slow down to be with family and friends, we at the Carolina Cyber Center want to take a moment and reflect on the true meaning of the season and the hope of a secure future for those who believe. For us, our ultimate security came...
Cybersecurity and Hacktivism: Where’s the Line?
We train people to hack. Should we? Between hacktivists siding with Ukraine and going rogue against Russia, a single hacker taking down the entirety of North Korea’s internet in retaliation, and the new GoodWill ransomware virus that holds data ransom and demands good...
4 Takeaways from Verizon’s 2022 DBIR
It’s one of our favorite times of the year: the release of Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report. Verizon's 2022 DBIR is chock full of crucial statistics and trends in the cyber realm; I’ll highlight just four, and then unpack them. 1. Small businesses (very...
Flip the Script and Begin Your Cyber Career
Fear and doomsday predictions fill the news, and there is a lot of material to work with: war in Ukraine, Russian hacking threats, economic downturns, and skyrocketing gas prices. What if there is a bright side? Insider recently reported 3 warning signs of a...
Over 400K lost: Another Type of Fraud
After speaking to a TV station recently about the Zelle fraud vector, I had another phone call on behalf of an elderly woman. Victim to another instance of fraud, this woman lost over $480,000. From the sound of it, the only thing she now has left to live on is social...
The Everyday Struggle to Survive and Protect
I still remember the moment I was alerted that the password used for my company’s cloud storage—where we stored our backups, our data, essentially everything we wouldn’t want to be misplaced or stolen—had been compromised in a data breach. It was a heart-stopping...
Serving the Career Changers and Recent Grads
What do recent cybersecurity graduates, career changers, and professionals with “gaps” in their resumes have in common? They need to prove that they can do the job. As a cybersecurity educator, professional, and small business leader, the last few days have been...
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