Facebook Account Hacked?
Some will fall victim to a hacked Facebook account. We've fallen victim before. It's not too uncommon. Matters are made worse if you no longer have ac…
Embedded Packet Capture
Cisco's embedded packet capture is an immensely useful command. It allows one to capture network traffic from any point within a router.
Cybersecurity Threat Report for May 22nd, 2020
Signal has fixed a vulnerability affecting its secure and encrypted communications application. Actors were able to discover and track a user’s loc…
Cybersecurity Threat Report for May 21st, 2020
Catilan Cimpanu of Zero Day reports that a vulnerability exists in DNS based software and may be used to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)…
The State of Broadband 2020
As of this writing, if you’re micro enterprise, you really don’t need much more than 10 Mbps downstream. Typically, you’ll get 5 Mbps upstream …
Cybersecurity Threat Report for May 20th, 2020
More information has surfaced about the Data Breach that has impacted the UK based air-line, EasyJet. According to Thomas Brewster of Forbes magazine…
Cybersecurity Threat Report for May 19th, 2020
Information is scarce but it is being reported that 9 million customers were impacted by the breach. ZDNet reports that the data breach was said to b…
Cybersecurity Threat Report for May 18th, 2020
U.S. Center for Internet Security Alert Level GUARDED: indicates a general risk of increased hacking, virus, or other malicious activity. From the Cen…
Using Linguistic Phonetics for Secure Passwords
How to use linguistic phonetics and phonetic segments to generate a secure password or passhrase. Based on the "Human Condition" one can remember up t…
tcpdump For Newbies
tcpdump is a Linux based tool to capture packets as they "cross the wire". tcpdump is a tool for network engineers or cybersecurity engineers.