User vs. Government: The Irony Behind Facebook’s Stance on Privacy I can’t tell you how many times someone would ask me if there was truth behind the assumption that the FBI can read everyone’s emails. While I could have fun…
Conversations in an Uber
L Recently Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was taken over by a group of hackers ironically named ‘The Chuckle Squad.’ They tweeted racial slurs and antisemitic messages from Dorsey’s account. Shortly after the incident, the tweets were deleted, his…
So Ya Bought the Car: Part II
S Congratulations on your new purchase. A new vehicle is always fun and exciting. After all the research that went into this expensive new purchase, it goes without saying that the last thing you’re probably thinking of is cybersecurity. I’ve…
So Ya Wanna Buy A Car: Part I
So Ya Wanna Buy A Car… This year my 16 year-old finally got his driver’s license. He’s a responsible kid with a part-time job, so I decided to search online for a new-to-him reliable set of wheels. As I was…
How to Prevent an Email Hacking: Part II
How to Prevent an Email Hacking: Part II Email hacking is the number one chosen attack vector for cybercriminals. We have to face the facts that when the bad guys steal the password of your email or social media account,…
How to Prevent an Email Hacking: Part I
How to Prevent an Email Hacking- Part I Every week I talk about cybersecurity, cybercrime, and the latest news to accompany this topic in the headlines. Whether it be any number of high profile data breaches such as Yahoo, Facebook,…
The Truth To Cybersecurity
What the Industry Isn’t Telling You I decided to write, The Secret To Cybersecurity: A Simple Plan to Keep your Family and Business Safe, to share my decades of fighting cybercrime as an FBI Special Agent. My goal after retiring…
Cybercrime Tips
Understanding and Preventing It Cybercrime has become a fact of life in the digital world. The threat is incredibly serious – and growing. Cyber-intrusions are becoming more prevalent, more expensive, and far more sophisticated. Identity thieves are attacking average citizens,…
Equifax Breach
Take the cash, or free credit monitoring? Take the Cash! Almost two years ago, Equifax announced that 147 million Americans, or almost half of the U.S. population, had their sensitive information stolen. In return for their lack of security protocol,…
FaceApp: Scarier Than Aging Itself
Are the apps you download putting you at risk for a cyber attack? There aren’t too many things that are more horrifying than my frazzled, half-open eyed, linen-creased face in the morning. It seems like only yesterday- when most of…
