Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Phishing / Social Engineering / Spear Phishing / Whaling

Holiday Scams and Hoaxes

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About Joe Gray

Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is currently a Senior Security Architect and maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. In his spare time, Joe enjoys attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (spoken taps out A LOT!), and flying his drone. Joe is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) and was awarded a DerbyCon Black Badge. Joe has contributed material for the likes of AlienVault, ITSP Magazine, CSO Online, and Dark Reading.

Black Friday / Cyber Crime / Cyber Monday / Internet Security / Phishing / Social Engineering / Spear Phishing / Whaling

Credit Card and E-Commerce Security

Note: This blog post originally appeared on Sword & Shield Enterprise Security’s website on November 17, 2016; This embedding does not work with NoScript or other Content Security Filters since …

About Joe Gray

Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is currently a Senior Security Architect and maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. In his spare time, Joe enjoys attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (spoken taps out A LOT!), and flying his drone. Joe is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) and was awarded a DerbyCon Black Badge. Joe has contributed material for the likes of AlienVault, ITSP Magazine, CSO Online, and Dark Reading.

Beware: US Elections Phishing, Malware, & Hoaxes
2016 Presidential Election / Cyber Security / Cybersecurity / Donald Trump / Hillary Clinton / Internet Security / Malware / Phishing

Beware: US Elections Phishing, Malware, & Hoaxes

Beware: US Elections Phishing, Malware, & Hoaxes This post is meant to act as a means to inform people that there may be hoaxes, phishing campaigns, click-bait, and malware related …

About Joe Gray

Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is currently a Senior Security Architect and maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. In his spare time, Joe enjoys attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (spoken taps out A LOT!), and flying his drone. Joe is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) and was awarded a DerbyCon Black Badge. Joe has contributed material for the likes of AlienVault, ITSP Magazine, CSO Online, and Dark Reading.

The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead

Beware: Walking Dead Phishing Schemes and Malware

Beware: Walking Dead Phishing Schemes and Malware This post is meant to act as a means to inform people that there will be Walking Dead Phishing Schemes and Phishing in …

About Joe Gray

Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is currently a Senior Security Architect and maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. In his spare time, Joe enjoys attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (spoken taps out A LOT!), and flying his drone. Joe is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) and was awarded a DerbyCon Black Badge. Joe has contributed material for the likes of AlienVault, ITSP Magazine, CSO Online, and Dark Reading.

Spear Phishermen Target Corporate W-2 Data
Cyber Crime / Cybersecurity / Data Breach / Doxing / Finance Industry / IRS / MoneyTree / Phishing / Seagate / Security Education / SnapChat / Social Engineering / Spear Phishing / Sprouts / W-2 / Whaling

Spear Phishermen Target Corporate W-2 Data

Spear Phishermen Target Corporate W-2 Data The Back Story           As if tax season is not already stressful enough, the season ending April 15, 2016 has …

About Joe Gray

Joe Gray joined the U.S. Navy directly out of High School and served for 7 years as a Submarine Navigation Electronics Technician. Joe is currently a Senior Security Architect and maintains his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. In his spare time, Joe enjoys attending information security conferences, contributing blogs to various outlets, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (spoken taps out A LOT!), and flying his drone. Joe is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) and was awarded a DerbyCon Black Badge. Joe has contributed material for the likes of AlienVault, ITSP Magazine, CSO Online, and Dark Reading.

Scottrade Victim to Data Breach
Data Breach / Finance Industry / Scottrade / ScottTrade

Scottrade Victim to Data Breach

Scottrade Victim to Data Breach Per Wired, (2015) “FOLLOWING NEWS THIS week that hackers stole data on 15 million T-Mobile customers comes a new report that 4.6 million customers of the …

About Scott Entsminger

Scott Entsminger was born and raised in Virginia. He graduated from Radford University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice. Scott has worked for the Department of Defense since graduating college. He is an expert in Windows Administration; with specific experience in Group Policy and vulnerability remediation. He also has specific experience in Information Assurance (IA) and Cyber Security.

Scott holds the CompTIA Security+ certification. He is always looking to diversify his skillset. Scott is an avid sports fan, particularly baseball. He also is an avid gamer and enjoys learning different skills involving his PC.