Category: Cyber Security

Like most of you, I am working from home. I’ve been doing it for 25 years or so. Working from home provides a good opportunity to take classes without the usual work distractions. This is a great time for government agencies and private companies to bring employees up to speed in cyber security. Both cyber […]

This whole deepfake thing has me concerned and bordering on frightened. And I’m not the only one. I wrote earlier about how neural networks can make realistic-looking faces. They are getting better. A whole collection of the faces is now available for free. These are faces of people who do not exist at all. Samsung […]

Today is Safer Internet Day. While Learning Tree International is not an official sponsor nor national partner, we support the effort. As part of that support here are some ways you can help foster their 2020 mission of “Together for a better internet”. While Safer Internet Day is focused on younger net users, most readers […]

Two-factor authentication is rapidly becoming a “must-do” in this era of rampant cyber threats. I’ve discussed and encouraged two-factor authentication here and in Learning Tree’s cyber security introduction course. But it must be done correctly. Two-step and two-factor authentication Some organizations use hardware tokens that display numbers that change every thirty seconds or so. Apps […]

Passwords will be with us for quite a while and so will password breaches, I’m afraid. Last week I received a notice that a site I use experienced a password breach. The email explained that the passwords themselves were encrypted, but that I should change my password on that site and any others where I […]