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US Housing Market Hit by Threat Actors

Nov 28, 2023

Two recent incidents have caught my attention, and they're impacting the housing market in a real way at this stage. Mr. Cooper is a loan servicer that claims t...

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Jeffco Incident - I Found Some Data

Nov 21, 2023

This is an update to my story on the Jeffco Schools incident. Please refer to my "we are human" statement on that post. Defenders: We still see you, and we stil...

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School Cybersecurity - What can we do?

Nov 20, 2023

In my last article, I covered the concerning trend of cyber-attacks aimed at K12 school districts. I've been keeping that up to date as best I can, so check the...

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Another School District Targeted - This one Hits Close

Nov 8, 2023

\[learn\more caption="Important Preface - We are Human"\] Before we dive in, I want to make something clear. Right now, there are a lot of incident responders d...

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Let's Talk About the Cloudflare Outage

Nov 4, 2023

![](images/cloudflaredomkirbycachestats.png) Over the last couple of days, Cloudflare suffered a significant outage across its control plane and analytics envir...

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Normalize Asynchronous Collaboration

Oct 23, 2023

There seems to be a rather unfortunate crusade against work from home and even hybrid work. There's a number of predicted problems that are driving this type of...

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AI is not a Red Pill

Sep 11, 2023

Listen, I'm just as excited about artificial intelligence as everyone else. However, like with many things, I am firmly in the camp of "proceed with caution." A...

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Your Healthcare Provider may be Failing You

Sep 10, 2023

In the first half of 2023, an estimated 39 million people were impacted by 295 data breaches, in the US alone. This is a stupidly staggering number, and it just...

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Electronic vs Digital Signatures

Jul 27, 2023

Some time ago, I posted about certificate authentication, and certificates themselves. In those articles, I mentioned digital signatures and made a really small...

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Securing WordPress with Cloudflare Access

Jul 18, 2023

Quite some time ago, I posted about my use of Cloudflare's edge services to protect my WordPress installations. I still use and recommend Cloudflare as a fronte...

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To IaaS or not to IaaS?

Jun 4, 2023

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) might just be the cloud in its purest form. It truly is just "renting someone else's" computer. Because of that, IaaS offers ...

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Microsoft is Turning On Your Security Defaults - You Should Leave It That Way!

Apr 20, 2023

If you're a global administrator in a Microsoft tenant, you might have (or soon will) receive an email that reads something like this: > You’re receiving this e...