Recently in Aurora, Colorado, a young man put on Facebook that he had hit a vehicle when he was drunk and didn’t stop at the scene of the crime. Within 20 minutes of him posting on Facebook, two of his Facebook friends had called local cops, and he was arrested. On the one hand, this […]

Data never goes away. Don’t forget about that. Just because you’re not using it, it doesn’t mean it goes away. It will never get deleted. It’s just like real life. There’s stuff you and I did in high school which we hope our friends have all forgotten. At some point the record’s out there but […]

One of the gray areas of law and technology interception is in matrimonial cases. When couples are about to get a divorce, good attorneys go, “Give me all your social media credentials.” If the case is high profile or nasty enough, I’ve seen a lot of attorneys or their technologists go through and dig up […]

Attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Tom Blandi, famous hair stylist and hair product developer We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our […]

One of our favorite clients is a financial firm that went through significant changes during the financial meltdown and the improving aftermath. During the recession, they had cut backs, head count dropped, and they became a small-fry to their IT provider. As a result, their IT provider started ignoring them. During the on-boarding, I conducted […]

This video is an EXCELLENT example of social engineering – and this is the stuff we (or our colleagues) fall for. It is a good thing to add to the SECURITY AWARENESS training. Click on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRMrEfAIiI

A few weeks ago, pro-ISIS hackers broke into the YouTube and Twitter accounts for US CENTCOM and sent embarrassing tweets and videos. During the same weekend, another group of criminals hijacked the Crayola Facebook account and sent lewd/adult photos to embarrass Crayola. You can watch my interview with WPIX11 here https://www.brainlink.com/pro-isis-hackers-take-control-us-central-command-twitter-account/ So what lessons you […]

Monkey in a bar A man walks into a bar and orders a beer. He takes a sip and sets it down. While he is looking around, a monkey swings down and steals the beer. He asks the barman, “who owns the monkey?” The barman says it’s the piano player. The man walks over to […]

A construction firm asked me to test their backup system because they were unable to restore critical files after a cryptowall breakout and their IT provider had stopped returning their call. Here’s what I found: The firm had been paying for backups for the past 5 years. The backup software was 5 years old. The […]