This article contains an affiliate link for ProtonVPN which we have an independent partnership with. Welcome to Bsquared Intel’s Ultimate Holiday Shopping Cyber Security Guide! If you are one of the 158 million people that the National Retailers Federation estimates will go shopping this Black Friday [Source: Yahoo! News] it’s a good time to keep [...]
Here are eight ways you can improve your privacy if you’re concerned about others snooping on your social media profiles, advertisers tracking you online, those going through your trash, those interested in your conversations or whereabouts, and protecting your files/devices. 1. Get your social media under control Limit the amount of information you share. We’ve [...]
Cybersquatting is defined as: “… registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.” [...]
To begin, for those finding Bsquared Intel for the first time and are unfamiliar with OSINT, let’s define it. OSINT, or Open Source Intelligence, is collecting, analyzing, and using publicly available information to help make decisions or answer questions. Also, OSINT isn’t the be all end all solution. It has it’s limitations. However, when used [...]
Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by. We wanted to take a quick minute to highlight what Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont recently signed into the law other day. Before we dive in, an obligatory disclaimer. We are not lawyers. This post is not considered legal advice or a legal opinion. We urge you to consult [...]
Based on reporting and our own observations, here are some reasons why ransomware isn't letting up any time soon: Cyber liability insurance policies with ransomware/extortion policies in them have incentivised attackers. The bad actors know that if their victim organization has a cyber extortion policy, they'll be paid. Some industries, like healthcare, may end up [...]
To start, an unauthorized user is someone who doesn't have permission to access a computer or a system. Unauthorized access is bypassing security policies and controls to said computer or system. Here are a few ways this happens: In Verizon's 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, the FBI's 2020 Internet Crime Report, and EUROPOL's Internet Organized [...]
Many miles were walked during Project Warwalk to collect WiFi SSID data during the summer of 2020 in a neighborhood. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic the whole project started because of the combination of curiosity and having plenty of downtime. From July 14th, 2020 through July 21st, 2020, we collected thousands of data points. While [...]
Welcome back to the sixth entry of our research project, Project Warwalk. If this is your first time here, hello! To read the other entries related to this series and check out the glossary, click here . This entry to this series marks a distinctive shift when we’re talking about WiFi and specifically SSIDs. The [...]
Welcome back and thanks for stopping by! For those new here, thanks for checking out Project Warwalk. You can check out all of our articles in the series here and visit the glossary to look up any terms. This entry is going to discuss network connected and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. We’ll be talking [...]
