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DriveSure data breach: How could a data breach at a company you don’t know impact you?
We all have a sense of the companies we trust. And we may trust our local car dealer when we provide them with some basic information. But as 3 million car owners learned recently, it’s not just the companies you trust, it’s the supply chain to those companies that...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 6 – Deceitful Delivery
This episode features fellow Stuart Crawford, a fellow Canadian, now living in Florida. Stuart heads up Ulistic MSP Marketing, which helps service providers market their services to customers. Try the "CAN I BE PHISHED?" online self-assessment game to get a taste of...
The cost of misplaced online love is getting higher
You might think it's easy to spot a scammer in an online dating app. But the data indicates that online dating scams increased by 50% last year. It's not hard to imagine that the impacts of COVID lockdowns can cause people to be emotionally vulnerable.A Valentines Day...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 5 – Vexatious Voicemail
This episode features my guest Nora Cox, a veteran information security and risk management consultant. Nora and I worked together as Product Managers at security software company Entrust many years ago. Her experience in Chief Risk Officer and Chief Compliance...
Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook?
We've all seen the repeating waves of calls to quit Facebook. Often these movements are in protest of the company's poor privacy policies. With over 2 billion apparently active "users" (many of whom are bots and scammers), it's unlikely that a grass-roots movement...
Is gamification of phishing and social engineering awareness just a fad?
For people who have been doing serious work in IT or Cyber, there are so many serious problems to be solved, and the problems are mounting. So, it's understandable when professionals who are focused every day on those serious problems are asked about gamification....
Why would I ever be targeted by a cyberattacker?
Most people feel they will never be targeted by attackers because they aren't working on anything very exciting, when the reality is, anyone can and will be targeted, even if it is just as a stepping stone Here are some reasons that you may be targeted, even if you...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 4 – Abnormal Administrator with Ted Demopoulos
This episode features my guest Ted Demopoulos, a veteran security consultant and author I've known for many years. Ted works in all areas of security, and is very active in helping consultants and entrepreneurs build their companies. Ted helps me unbox a phishing...
The perfect storm of risks facing remote workers
Recently CPO Magazine published an article I wrote entitled "Engaging Remote Workers to Defend Information and Systems With Gamification". In that article, I laid out the events that have led to the risky situation in which many businesses find themselves. Here are...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 3 – Unboxing a phishing email from the World Health Organization with Shawn Tuma
In our third episode of Can I Be Phished? we welcome Shawn Tuma, a data privacy and cyber security lawyer at Spencer Fane law firm in Houston, Texas. Shawn helps me unbox another phishing message that is offering something enticing from the World Health Organization....
What is gamification?
While some people assert that there is a single definition (in their mind) of what gamification is, I’ve actually learned that there are several definitions for it. So, for the purposes of awareness, and specifically cyber security awareness, I like to keep it simple....
Ethical Employee Vulnerability Management – The pitfalls of phishing assessments
Security professionals have tested networks to identify vulnerabilities for many years now. It’s a common practice called “Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing”, or sometimes “Ethical Hacking”. The word ethical in this context is interesting, as it indicates...
What should I be doing for Cyber Security Awareness Month?
It is October 1, 2020, and as you may know, October is always Cyber Security Awareness Month, and I have a confession to make. For many years as a security consultant and security awareness trainer, October always crept up on me. So, I sometimes didn't have much...
“Home Alone”: Click Armor Launches Gamified Cyber Security Awareness Training for Remote Workforces
Solution helps remote workers protect business and personal information from attacks
Why security awareness training is different from task-based training
If you’ve ever taken a security awareness training course, aside from a phishing assessment that tests your skill at avoiding email attacks, you may not have noticed something that’s really pretty obvious. Security awareness training is typically delivered using a...
