Category «Cybersecurity»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 11, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: The anatomy of a ransomware attack; The Evolution of Cybercrime as a Service; The Older You Are, the More Likely You Are to Fall Victim to Cybercrime; and Capitol rioters who deleted social media posts of their involvement may have further incriminated themselves.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 4, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: CISA Begins Cataloging Bad Practices that Increase Cyber Risk; Google Is Adding Support for Digital Covid-19 Vax Cards into Android; How a Burner Identity Protects Your Inbox, Phone, and Cards; and Scientist Finds Early Coronavirus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Computer Security, Congress, Courts & Technology, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Healthcare, KM, Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 27, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Your iPhone’s WiFi will break after you join this hotspot; How to Recover Files in Google Docs and Microsoft Word; The Young Fall for Scams More Than Seniors Do. Time for a Warning; and South Korea’s Nuclear Research agency breached using VPN flaw.

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Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Firewalls, Privacy

Client Portals: A Must-Have Service for Today’s Law Firms

Jim Calloway is Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program and co-author of the ABA books “How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times” and “Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour: Strategies That Work.” In this article he explains how beyond secure document sharing, client portals for law firms can serve as a “virtual lobby” for clients and potential clients.

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Subjects: Communications, Cybersecurity, KM, Law Firm Marketing, Legal Marketing, Legal Profession, Legal Technology

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 19, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Senate bill boosts penalties for cyber criminals; Anti-Vaxxers Review-Bomb Bars With Vaccine Requirements; Why employees need counterespionage training; and ‘An uprising’; Youth activists bring digital rights to forefront.

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Subjects: Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Encryption, Financial System, Healthcare, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Why ransomware attacks are becoming a national security risk; This is how fast a password leaked on the web will be tested out by hackers; 7 Telltale Signs You’re on the Phone With a Scammer; and Fastly internet outage won’t be last: How to prepare, protect yourself.

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Subjects: AI, Blockchain, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Legislative

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 6, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method; On the Taxonomy and Evolution of Ransomware; Amazon’s Ring Finally Discloses Police Requests; and The Limits of Law and AI.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Communications, Criminal Law, Cybersecurity, Email, Gadgets/Gizmos, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 30, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: How to Password-Protect Your Google Search History and More; After Colonial attack, TSA issues new cyber regs for pipelines; European privacy groups challenge facial scan firm Clearview; and Google, Hospital Chain Cut Data Deal on Patient Records.

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Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Economy, Email Security, Encryption, Energy, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: US to ramp up tracking of domestic extremism on social media; Protecting agency assets begins with identity-centric security; Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Highlights Need for Better Federal and Private-Sector Preparedness; and Cyber Attacks – A Rising Threat (Infographic).

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Energy, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 8, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say; Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system; Google Plans to Automatically Enroll Users In Two Factor Authentication (2FA);

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Subjects: Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Resources, Healthcare, Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy, Travel
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