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Cybersecurity, Food and Home Chef

Home Chef, a US-based company, is a meal kit delivery service. If you don’t have time to go to the grocery store and am looking for healthy meals, you can contract with them for meal deliveries to your home. The ingredients show up in a box and you are ready to go! While not an overly complex process, this is still pertinent. Data Breach As part of the service, you would pay for the deliveries with your credit card. The company isn’t going to ship your food and hope you pay t

Cybersecurity and Attack Timing

Universities have been targeted for well over a decade. These institutions are the steward of their student’s data and information. As this is valuable for the persons attacking the institutions, the attacks tend to be rather frequent. Recently, York University, a university in Canada was successfully attacked. Attack Timing When you are planning an attack, you probably don’t want to begin this when the cybersecurity staff is there, monitoring the systems, and ready to addres

Cybersecurity and 'Smart Cities'

Society is becoming ever-more connected on a daily basis. Consumers are able to check email from virtually anywhere, including the home, other’s homes, work, when getting coffee, when driving, etc. The portals (Wi Fi) are present in the person’s homes, office building, grocery stores, coffees shops, vehicles, and many other types of locations. This rather not exhaustive list does not even include the person’s smart phones. In another facet of connective-ness, vehicles are sig

Cybersecurity and GoDaddy

Everyone knows of GoDaddy (https://www.godaddy.com/) and their services. Years ago, the business became a household name with their commercials. Since this time, the business has grown and become a bit more conservative, as evidenced by their website. This growth has made GoDaddy the world’s largest domain registrar with 19 million customers, 7 million managed domains, and millions of hosted websites. In comparison to GoDaddy’s peers, this is huge. Breach The short summary is

Cybersecurity and Passwords

Business owners can show they care about their employees’ cyber safety outside of office hours as well as at work. Consider sharing cyber safety examples during a staff meeting is always a good time to continue cyber safety conversations with your employees. Topic for a staff meeting: Don’t reuse passwords Amazon frequently checks for reused user name and password combinations posted online. They, and other online companies, troll the net to locate potential repositories of s

Cybersecurity, Universities and Personal Data

Universities are frequently targeted due to the amount of personal, confidential data being held. This is accumulated as part of the application process, along with on-going course attendance. One recent target has been the University of Warwick. The university is located in Coventry in the UK and is part of the Russell Group. While the details of the successful attack have not been published, this attack may have been invited in by one of the users. The issue may have all st

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