by thelanzagroup | Mar 23, 2016 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
Apple vs the FBI, which involves unlocking the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone, took another turn when the FBI said it may not need Apple’s help unlocking the phone after all. Here is a link to a story with comments from me in the aftermath of the...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 21, 2016 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
I will be presenting the keynote at the Rockford, Illinois Chamber of Commerce this week. The focus of the presentation is on cyber security for businesses. One of the things I will be talking about is the “Olympic Vision” keylogger malware. It is sent to...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 14, 2016 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
In a presentation I was giving to the Certified Fraud Examiners last month, an audience member pointed out that in many phishing emails that are designed to steal our username and password, there are typos and common sense errors. A point well taken. However, I have...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 8, 2016 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
According to the Wall Street Journal, stolen checks from mailboxes netted crooks in New York more than $ 30,000. The crime is called check washing and it involves crooks stealing outgoing mail from your mailbox. If they find a handwritten check, they...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 7, 2016 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
Coming off of very busy weeks presenting in Columbus, Cincinnati, Durango, Sarasota, Kansas City, Columbus (again) and Kansas City (again). A few times the question was raised about fake phone calls from someone pretending to be an IRS agent and demanding money for...
by thelanzagroup | Feb 22, 2016 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center is aware of this bitcoin conversion because that is what they said they paid to hackers to get the encryption key to unlock their data. The linked article provides more details, but to prevent this from happening to you personally...
