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Cybersecurity and Financial Services

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. Cebuana Lhuillier is located in the Philippines and is one of the leading and largest financial services firm. Cebuana Lhuillier is differentiated as this is not a bank. The firm has nearly 2,500 branches throughout the nation. The services include a pawn service, remittance, micro-insurance, and micro-loans. With the business operations, the data held by the firm is exceptionally v

Cybersecurity and Ransomware Attacks

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. The day started out like any other day. Get up, get ready, load the vehicle, work, return home, repeat. On this day though, I went to the mailbox, just as I have done for years. Today though, there was a letter from the Wolverine Solutions Group. Not recognizing the name, curiously I opened the letter. It seems as though my healthcare provider, Michigan Eye Institute, used Wolverine

Cybersecurity and Vehicle Attacks

Vehicle security assessment (car hacking) being in earnest three to four years ago. The momentous occasion most associated with this was the Jeep attack (Greenberg, 2017). This been well publicized in the print media, social media, YouTube, and many other placements. This act of research truly opened the eyes of not just the public, but also politicians and InfoSec personnel. One area that continues to be an issue is with connect vehicles being vulnerable due to several fa

Cybersecurity and Early Warning System Attack

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. In the Meadow, we occasionally have a storm roll through the area. There may be high winds, hail, and the power may occasionally go out. We have become so used to these harsh winters of the north, not much really bothers us anymore. Just in case a large storm would come through, the council had an early warning device set up. We have never used it for an event yet. The police chi

Cybersecurity, Phishing and Rehab Centers

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. In the Meadow, the residents are generally healthy. At times, we have issue requiring surgery and later rehabilitation. Based on the injury, this could be a short or long journey. Regardless of the length of rehabilitation, the patient does need to provide certain data and information to the facility where the treatment will take place. This data is personal, confidential, and shoul

Cybersecurity and the Infotainment System of Your Vehicle

As technology advances, there are more opportunities for vulnerabilities to be researched and published. These continue to abound throughout the industries using these technologies. With computer chips, there have been the Spectre and other vulnerabilities, and smart phones, Rowhammer and many others for the different platforms. Vehicles have the same issues, as these are much of the same equipment. There may not be as many issues published, however there are still critical i

Cybersecurity and Password Managers

Here in Woesnotgone Meadow, we are online quite frequently. One headache the residents have dealt with has been with passwords. Some of our residents have found it difficult to remember all the passwords they have for the different sites. Most of the residents have begun using a password manager. Margie from the library recommended using a password manager. Generally these managers work fine. This was not the case, however, with Blur. Abine is the corporate entity behind Blur

Cybersecurity and Healthcare

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. Generally, people in the Meadow are healthy. We enjoy the outdoors, hiking, and sitting downtown on the benches watching people walk by. At times, though, our residents may need to go to the clinic for various chronic or acute problems. At times Jerry claims Margie is trying to poison him. When we attend the doctor’s, we are required to provide a bit of private and health informatio

Cybersecurity and School Districts

All is relatively well here at Woesnotgone Meadow, where everyone has above average bandwidth. In the Meadow, we have our school system. This isn’t huge, however, is just-right-sized for the community. We have all the amenities of the larger schools and cater to the students. This can be a blessing and create an issue. Any school can be a target, as the Bridgeport schools in CT have found. Public schools abound through the nation. These are located locally and in certain inst

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