After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to the local grocery store. Unfortunately, like most men; I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women – she loves to browse. Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter, from the local store manager:
Dear ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Bruce Schneier Edition
[2023.02.15] Cameras are getting smaller and smaller, changing the scale and scope of surveillance.
According to internal Slack messages that were ...
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Phishing Email AlertsExamples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my inbox. Some are sent by clients or readers like you, and other reliable sources on the Internet.
You can send phishing samples to me at phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention is to provide a warning and show current examples ...
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By Bob Weiss
I decided to give another go at writing an article using ChatGPT, following the instructions I found in Sam Szuchan’s great article on LinkedIn. These were my instructions for ChatGPT.
I want you to act as a cybersecurity blogger. You are writing an 800 word article about ChatGPT. It should contain the following topic sections. 1 How to ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Last week, there were 117 vulnerabilities disclosed in WordPress based software that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 30 Vulnerability Researchers that ...
Continue Reading →Phishing Email AlertsExamples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my inbox. Some are sent by clients or readers like you, and other reliable sources on the Internet.
You can send phishing samples to me at phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention is to provide a warning and ...
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URL (%) Percent Encoding , Base64 Encoding, and SQL InjectionBy Bob Weiss
As we discussed in our first two articles, many of the cybersecurity certifications that I teach have content that involves the uses of encoding, code injection, directory transversal, and scripting. These concepts can be difficult to grasp, and the exam questions can be challenging to ...
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Happy Pi Day. It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
As we discussed in our first article, many of the cybersecurity certifications that I teach have content that involves the uses of encoding, code injection, directory transversal, and scripting. These concepts can be difficult to grasp, and the exam questions can be challenging to answer ...
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Many of the cybersecurity certifications that I teach have content that involves the uses of encoding, code injection, directory transversal, and scripting. These concepts can be difficult to grasp, and the exam questions can be challenging to answer correctly. This series of articles is designed to help you understand the basic concepts, and ...
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