Lou Covey, Author at Cyber Protection Magazine

Criminal using a device to make a deep fake voice call

Study: Consumers ambivalent about deep fake content

A recent study performed by Synthedia has found that consumers are, by and large, ambivalent over the value and threats of deepfake content generated by

Privacy Not Included Group dings Amazon this year

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy those whizbang, nifty gifts this weekend, you just need to go into it knowing what you are unleashing upon yourself and those you are buying the gifts for. Privacy Not Included makes it a little better with clear guides on how you can reduce the amount of data you give up and keep everyone a little safer. There are also recommendations for more privacy-forward products, mostly from Apple (but they aren’t pure and clean either).

SEC v. SolarWinds: a tipping point for consolidation?

The SEC lawsuit against SolarWinds Corporation and CISO Tim Brown may upend an industry push for consolidation. It also questions whether large public companies providing

Biden’s EOs on AI is more CYA than action

Nations gather to discuss AI safety

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai are the faces of misinformation

Opinion: Deprioritize social media for peace

Finding content from legacy media is getting difficult in social media by design of the management of social media companies, while information from radicalized groups, hostile nation states, and paid political consultants currently makes up the bulk of information that these users call “news.”

Social engineering criminals are after everyone

It’s not just mega corporations like MGM Grand Entertainment that get targeted by social engineering attacks. In fact, it happens millions of times every year to individuals young and old, rich and poor, well-educated and not.

Ten ways to avoid being an online victim

Gabriel Friedlander, founder of Wizer, published the following list recently on Linkedin. While the suggestions are not comprehensive, they do cover a lot of ground in maintaining your personal and small business security.

Unpacking the 15-min phone call that took down MGM/Caesars

The MGM Grand/Caesar’s breach is the most exhaustively covered cyber event in recent memory. Even the attackers published detailed explanations of how they did it. There was, however, one question still needs answering:

Podcast: Defense against the AI Arts

The rise of generative AI products for commercial use is probably the fastest and most controversial of any technological advance in recent history. Governments are

AI-generated picture of Vladimir Putin eating a large bowl of poutine

Podcast: Canada in the crosshairs for cyber attack

Canadians are arguably the nicest people in the world. So we called up our favorite Canadian “cybersleuth”, Ian Thornton-Trump, Cyjax’s CISO. to get the skinny.