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Drew Hjelm

Threat Alert! How to Check and Secure your Google, Microsoft, and Apple Accounts

Have you ever felt that unsettling moment when you suspect your online accounts have been breached? Perhaps you received a mysterious...

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Can Artificial Intelligence build your information security program? Probably not (yet!)

One of the most widely discussed tools to be released recently is the ChatGPT released by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence chat bot...

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You’ve got Mail (and Misdirected Funds): A live demo of email hacking

Presentation given at CypherCon, March 31, 2023 In 2022, email compromises were one the costliest forms of cybercrime reported to the...

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Easy Playbooks to Make Ransomware Criminals Cry

Here are the slides and playbooks discussed in the BlueTeamCon presentation, "Easy Playbooks to Make Ransomware Criminals Cry" on August...

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What Can Van Halen Teach Us About Cyber Insurance?

The dawn of music on television led to the rise of big bands with big personalities in the 1980s. One of the biggest acts of that era was...

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Your Free Email Might Be Pretty Expensive in a Data Breach

With many free email providers you get what you pay for in terms of logging data that can be used if the bad guys get access.

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What’s the Word? Common Incident Response Lingo to Know

Folks who work in the technology and cybersecurity industry often use specialized language and lingo to talk about their jobs. For those...

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Secure Yourself Online: Use Anonymized Email Addresses

It seems like everywhere you go there’s a new requirement to give out your email address for contact information. Many of those places...

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One Weird Trick: Blocking Password-Protected Attachments to Combat Ransomware

Threat actors deploying ransomware typically gain access to victims’ networks through either phishing emails that get them access to a...