How China's TikTok Spies On You & Your Kids
by George Seerden on March 19, 2020 at 1:00 PM
I have recently joined the ranks of people that aren’t really on social media anymore. So, much like veganism or cross-fit I have a responsibility to champion my new cause. I can’t claim to be an early un-adopter of social media and I left it for largely the same reasons as everyone e …
Nest Cameras – Basic Defense In Depth
by George Seerden on December 26, 2019 at 1:00 PM
I’m sure many of you have seen or heard of the recently released viral video showing a young girl being yelled at in her room via her internet connected Nest camera. Obviously, this was on a home network, but it occurred to me that a large amount of commercial entities also have inter …
Network Defense - Look at Policies and Training First
by George Seerden on October 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM
I live in two worlds. The first is with Compass IT Compliance where most of our clients are small to medium businesses that don’t have their own security teams in house. The second is with the US Air Force where my only job is to help secure the entire enterprise. I am always blown aw …
Secure Programming: An Afterthought.
by George Seerden on February 13, 2019 at 1:00 PM
I’ve been a professional programmer for nearly 16 years. I didn’t learn to program in college, the military taught me. It wasn’t until my seventh year that the security of the applications I was working on was taken seriously. That is seven years of code that was more than likely vuln …
WanaCry Ransomware: A Survival Guide
by George Seerden on June 7, 2017 at 10:07 AM
What is WannaCry Ransomware? WanaCrypt0r, WanaDecryt0r, and WannaCry are different names for essentially the same thing. Technically WanaCrypt0r is name of the executable, WanaDecrypt0r is the name of the decrypting utility, and WannaCry is what it makes people want to do. But, for mo …