TAP Into Technology Blog

Mr. Robot Revisited - Season 2

Last year, I was one of the many viewers transfixed with Mr. Robot, USA networks' hybrid IT-science-thriller show. Both the realism of the character Elliot Anderson as coder/hacker/vigilante and the...

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Hijacking Healthcare: Is DTSec Regulation the Solution for IoT enabled devices?

The recent jump in cyber attacks against the healthcare industry—especially ransomware attacks—aren’t a coincidence. The reality is that the healthcare industry presents the perfect opportunity for...

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Hacking Education - The Next Soft Target

When you send your precious 5 year old off to Kindergarten this year, not only do you need to worry about bullying, drugs and homework, now add hacking their personal identifiable information (PII)...

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Is There A Difference? Bypass Switch vs. Bypass TAP

I love talking with engineers and CISOs and listening to how they describe situations, devices and challenges within networking. The IT world loves acronyms, tech terms and jargon, but what surprises...

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[SlideShare] Tech Talk 2016: Crapplet, Cat Waxing, and CamelCase

Back by popular demand is my second edition of Tech Talk, were you can learn all about "Crapplets," "Cat Waxing" and other unusually interesting words from the cyber world. In our 2015 post I...

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[Vote] How will InfoSec Prioritize its $1 Trillion Spending?

With organizations like Bank of America publicly stating that they have an unlimited budget to fight cybercrime, it no surprise in the recent Cybersecurity Market Report by Cybersecurity Ventures...

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