Move forward while looking back

#Middlebury #Cybersecurity By JUSTIN GOLDEN As one year ends and a new year begins, we should look at a couple of significant 2019 hacking and data breach incidents while preparing ... Continue Reading →

Cybersecurity potpourri

#Middlebury #Cybersecurity By JUSTIN GOLDEN Cyber attacks for hire is one of the newest emerging cybersecurity threats, Kevin Jones writes in “Hacker Combat.” Big data is big money, ... Continue Reading →

Cyber security – The more things change …

#Middlebury #Cybersecurity By JUSTIN GOLDEN The quote from the 18th century French novelist Alphonse Karr, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” even applies to ... Continue Reading →

I’m calling from the help desk …

#Middlebury By JUSTIN GOLDEN There has been an increase in the number and frequency of scams from people contacting you, either by telephone or by inserting phony error messages on ... Continue Reading →

I’m calling from the help desk …

#Middlebury By JUSTIN GOLDEN There has been an increase in the number and frequency of scams from people contacting you, either by telephone or by inserting phony error messages on ... Continue Reading →

Spoofing is forever

#Middlebury By JUSTIN GOLDEN Apologies for my creative use of the title of the 1971 James Bond movie “Diamonds Are Forever” in my column. It appears we will continue to be plagued ... Continue Reading →

Open season on phishing

#Middlebury #Phishing By JUSTIN GOLDEN Phishing refers to tactics someone uses to try to gather confidential and sensitive information from you by tricking you into believing you should ... Continue Reading →

Reduce your cyber crime risk

#MIDDLEBURY By JUSTIN GOLDEN Sometimes perception is reality. Oftentimes, it is not. An example is from a survey completed by the Horton Group in Chicago for Assurex Global. The perception ... Continue Reading →

Golden Technologies – Look forward and backward in January

#MIDDLEBURY By JUSTIN GOLDEN The ancient Roman God Janus is depicted as having two faces, one facing forward and the other backward. He looked to the future as well as the past. The ... Continue Reading →

It’s 10 pm: Is your personal information secure?

#MIDDLEBURY By JUSTIN GOLDEN Those of us of a certain age remember a television commercial in the hazy past where the announcer would intone, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your ... Continue Reading →