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The Importance of Security Awareness Training and the Impact of Attack Demonstrations

Business, Defense, enterprise, Humans, OSINT, Personal Security

In “The Importance of Security Awareness Training”, SANS says: “One of the best ways to make sure company employees will not make costly errors in regard to information security is to institute company-wide security-awareness training initiatives...

[NEWS] D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information is Not a Computer Crime

Law, OSINT

[USA] D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information is Not a Computer Crime In a great win for OSINT and general Internet freedom (as the EFF says, “Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information” LOL), a DC court has ruled that automated...

DEF CON Beijing 2018

Conferences, Humans, OSINT, Personal Security, Social Engineering

I am speaking at the very first DEF CON in Beijing China [BETA] – Hope to see you there! The dates for #DEFCONBeijing are May 11-13, 2018. 16:00 in Speaking Track – DEF CON Groups Panel TBD in RECON VIllage – OSINT 101 Recommended OSINT...

WSVA Radio Interview – Protecting Your Children on Social Media

Interviews, Media, Personal Security, Social Media, Tips

I talked with Mike Schikman WSVA 550 radio about protecting the safety of teens and children on #socialmedia: RECM167_APRIL_WRIGHT-PROTECT YOUR CHILD__Mar 23 00 00 00 AM...

Hack In Paris – Fixing an Insecure Software Lifecycle

SDLC, Software, Talks

Audio Blog: How does social media impact getting a job?

Personal Security, Social Media

Today on the blog, we discuss: How does social media impact getting a job? Find out more at my sister-site, IncreaseYourSecurity.org

Audio Blog: What is Identity?

Personal Security, Privacy, Social Media

Today on the blog, we discuss: What is Identity? Find out more at my sister-site, IncreaseYourSecurity.org

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing

Personal Security, Privacy, Social Media

In case you missed it, news that “private” user data was harvested from 50 million profiles by a company called Cambridge Analytica hit the major news media this week. Data was gathered through a “survey” that exposed data about the user and...

Audio Blog: What are things you should not post on social media?

Personal Security, Privacy

Today, we have a new audio blog about the types of items that, when shared, can become problematic. Be sure to visit my sister-site about social media and personal privacy at http://increaseyoursecurity.com/ Things to not post on social media...

SOLVED: Time Machine “Error 17” and “Time Machine Backup does not support required Time Machine capabilities”

Apple

Was having an issue where on High Sierra where Time Machine was giving an error when connecting via AFP/SMB/NAS: Time Machine can’t access the backup disk “TimeMachineBackup”. The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error 17). I found this post,...
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