Mark G. Graff

12/17/2021

Are you confused about how to protect yourself on Facebook? You're invited to An Evening with Mark Graff, a part of the Secure Yourself Series of online ZOOM Experiences monthly. This Saturday night we'll be talking with Mark LIVE and answer your questions. We look forward to seeing you Saturday at 8 central/9 eastern

Cyber Security expert Mark Graff shares an evening online sharing fables and falsehoods of Facebook. A laugh and learn experience to guide you to keep your information and home safe online. Each month Mark will share an opportunity to join him on ZOOM to learn more ways to keep your home, family, an...

08/14/2021

An interesting turnaround

An anonymous hacker who stole more than $600 million from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network this week has returned virtually all of the money — and apparently turned down a half-million-dollar reward offered by the company for exposing its security vulnerability.

03/31/2021

Are you aware that when you are connected to the internet...the internet is connected to you?

Your private information...

Where you live

What your children’s names are

When you are home or are away on vacation

What you receive as gifts or have as equipment

May NOT be the wisest things to share, show pictures of or announce on social media posts.

Bad guys take notes abd too often you tell them what you have, where to find items and how to entice your children.

Be protective of your personal information.

Stop the bad guys from having your information by scrolling your posts.

02/14/2021

As Covid has made more and more businesses reconsider their viability online, more questions are brought to me about records security, services to protect identity, and product or process security.

What is your question relating to your security online?

02/01/2021

Do you have questions about cyber safety for Mark about your small business?

12/31/2020

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan

Remember what you post or put online lives somewhere on the internet forever.

12/26/2020

After holiday giving it’s important to create your own passwords on new devices. Many come with common passwords that can leave you vulnerable later.

12/21/2020

Mitt Romney warned a few days ago that the Russians potentially "have the capacity to cripple us economically [and] the potential to also cripple us with regards to our water and electricity and so forth."

He's right. Oh, maybe not "cripple," if luck is with us, but significantly disrupt, and to an extent we have never seen outside of war.

Also, by the way, we have the capability to do it to them, as well. For many years now, we have in fact been in a three-way standoff with the Russians and the Chinese. I said, in 1999, that we would someday reach a state of "Mutually Assured Downtime" -- like the nuclear war doctrine Mutually Assured Destruction, but with computer networks -- and we reached that state about 2014, by my reckoning.

Today, however, the big hack by the Russians has potentially de-stabilized the standoff. We need to make a national response, proportionate and tough and immediate. It may not need to a public blow, but it's critical we demonstrate that violations of the sort that have just been revealed do not go unpunished.

To be clear, I do not expect an attack by the Russians or anyone else on our food supply, or the power grid. It is my opinion, and I think that of most other analysts, that our deterrents are likely to hold for the foreseeable future. But we seem to have been caught wrong-footed here and now -- perhaps distracted by the election -- and we must take action to stabilize the situation.

When I was the Chief Information Security Officer of Nasdaq, I pointed out to two different Secretaries of Homeland Security that if a Russian submarine parked in New York Harbor and fired a cruise missile at 'my" stock market, or the NYSE, the U.S. would likely treat that shot as an act of war. How -- exactly -- is this extended, aggressive cyberattack different? We must decide quickly, and act accordingly.

12/20/2020

This week many offers and notices will be emailed by many businesses.

Legitimate ones will not ask you to verify your password via email.

12/12/2020

Avoid the hassle of unwanted advertisements and spam. Online contests or “what’s your ____” games often are mining for your permission and emails. They count on you not reading the fine print of the permissions you just agreed to by playing.

12/05/2020

As holiday buying increases online shopping let’s all be aware of what we’re clicking on. Purchasing or sharing $ information via text is just not a good idea.