Halloween
October Can Be Scary
Every October brings both Halloween and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). Most people know about Halloween, but if you’re just coming up to speed on NCSAM here is some background. National Cybersecurity ...

Spookiest Hacks, Cybercriminals and Tactics Lurking in 2023
A Bitdefender study found nearly half of Halloween-themed spam is fraudulent, with 69% of the spam hitting U.S. inboxes ...

Top 5 Fears That Keep IT Professionals Up at Night
Forget witches and zombies. For IT pros, the scariest monsters lurk in the digital realm. While most people are busyRead More The post Top 5 Fears That Keep IT Professionals Up at ...

Top 5 Fears That Keep IT Professionals Up at Night
Forget witches and zombies. For IT pros, the scariest monsters lurk in the digital realm. While most people are busyRead More The post Top 5 Fears That Keep IT Professionals Up at ...

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘A Halloween Carol’
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, maker of XKCD! Permalink ...

13 Cybersecurity Horror Stories to Give you Sleepless Nights
Are we sitting comfortably? Twas a dark and stormy night, and the cybersecurity team stood patiently in their Scrum meeting. “Tell us a tale,” the CISO said, and one of their number ...

Federal Data Agency for Social Media, Squirrelwaffle Malspam, Ransomware Hits U.S. Candymaker
Do we really need a federal data agency to regulate social media companies? Watch out for Squirrelwaffle and Qakbot malspam attacks, and ransomware hits a major candymaker ahead of Halloween (is nothing ...

Are These 13 Scary Security Gaps in Your APIs?
Today, bad actors are increasingly exploiting API security gaps, allowing them to exfiltrate data, commit fraud or take other actions that can come back to haunt your organization. With the spooky season ...

The Joy of Tech® ‘No Halloween This Year?’
via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®! Permalink ...
Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid – Trick or Treat?
Solid is a set of conventions and tools developed by Tim Berners-Lee. It aims to build decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles. It is modular, extensible and it relies as ...