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Facing FFT: Fraudulent Funds Transfers
On the first Friday in December, we had a Lunch and Learn to talk about the basics and fundamentals of cybersecurity for small and medium-sized businesses. In a room full of these business leaders, one voiced their biggest fear: falling victim to a fraudulent...
Facing FFT: Fraudulent Funds Transfers
On the first Friday in December, we had a Lunch and Learn to talk about the basics and fundamentals of cybersecurity for small and medium-sized businesses. In a room full of these business leaders, one voiced their biggest fear: falling victim to a fraudulent...
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...
Make the Statistics Irrelevant
Between 60-80% of data breaches aren’t publicized. We recently signed an agreement with a large group purchasing organization (GPO) to offer services to healthcare companies across America—services like cybersecurity risk assessments, policies, procedures,...
Building Security Together: A Hack the Port 2022 Review
Last week, I had the honor of being a part of the Hack the Port conference in Fort Lauderdale. We heard from national leaders including Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and...
Goodbye, PayPal.
After twenty years, I deleted my PayPal account last Monday morning. You’ve heard my thoughts on user responsibility as it relates to Zelle fraud. But the reality is that responsibility is a two-way street. Even though we are responsible for ensuring that who we send...
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