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You’re Part of a Billion-Node IoT Network… and Nobody Asked You?

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Your iPhone is quietly powering a global tracking network That’s not a sci-fi teaser, that’s how Apple AirTags actually work. On the surface, an AirTag looks simple: a little white button with no visible antenna, no GPS module, and…
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What your home WiFi and Smartphone are telling the entire planet!

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Geo-location Wifi databases? How many of you are aware that there are maps, accessible to the public that show your street address and list the WiFi SSID you are broadcasting in your house, along with the BSSID and router type. These maps even…
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Cloud based Next Gen Firewalls?

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Firewall or Security Appliance? Along with the general tend for business to move to a subscription based, recurring revenue model, the ubiquitous firewall has also moved to the cloud!   In the case of the firewall, however, there is measurable…
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Network Security begins with an "Acceptable Use" Policy!

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Most folks seem to understand what a firewall is and why it is so very important. They intuitively understand they need something between the “trusted” internal computer network, and the wild west we call the Internet! The installation of…
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Find the password from behind the ********** and other security vulnerabilities!

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If you are paying even the slightest attention to current technology trends, you will notice that many of your desktop applications are taking on the appearance of a browser!  The entire Microsoft Office suite, for example, has been optimized…
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Is there a RAT Virus in your phone system?

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If you have a device on your network that you do not have root privileges for, then your entire enterprise is at risk for a Cybercrime! Do you want to know what a Trojan horse might look like? It might very well look like a Linux appliance provided…
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Don't Look now you've been hacked - part 2 (useful tools for awareness)!

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Big Brother is Watching! The thought of people being concerned that NSA is listing and monitoring their activities is a hysterically funny concept to me. Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, know that he is a day late and a dollar short. Most…
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Don't look now but you have been hacked!

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Hackers at the Front Door? Most every home and business office now has a firewall that separates your internal computer network from the wild west of the world wide internet. The good news is that firewalls have become increasingly more sophisticated…
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Unified communications and its vulnerabilities

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Unified communications is a revolutionary technology that integrates many worlds of communication at one place. The way unified communications has converged many services is something unprecedented. You can get all the great features of unified…
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VoIP and SRST/AES Encryption!

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Encryption of VoIP traffic was, for some of us a humorous concept. I remembered as a young development professional how much fun it was to use a packet sniffer to capture the bosses packets and reassemble his email over the LAN. Years before…

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