I receive thousands of emails every month. I do a lot of (for me) critical activities online. I never receive legitimate emails demanding a suspicious online action any more. Except from HR departments. IT security people know this is a problem. The upper left image comes from the University of Minnesota's phishing awareness blog. HR people... Continue Reading →
UMN will never ask for personal info via email, except when they can't help it.
I am offering a Cybersecurity elective for students registered in the University of Minnesota's Master of Science in Software Engineering program. As I described in the class on Friday, the course uses the textbook I wrote and does a lot of lab work with security tools, including Wireshark, nmap, Gnu Privacy Guard, and vulnerability scanning. Here is... Continue Reading →
