PRE-Crime

After reading the recent FBI report on the state of email related cybercrime in 2022, one statistic popped out at me, when correlating different parts of the report related to Business Email Compromise and Ransomware. 

We’ve had a few days of insightful discussions at the world’s largest legal IT security event, ILTA LegalSEC. Since many of you are not able to (or not in the right frame of mind to) travel to beautiful Baltimore to experience this event live, I thought I would dedicate this week’s Tech Essentials to sharing the top three FBI-special-agent speaker insights (from my perspective).

Remember that classic book from high school English class, Animal Farm by George Orwell? (This is when the teacher droned on about what an ‘allegory’ was 😊.) Even if you don’t remember, there’s a famous bit where one of the anthropomorphized sheep says, “four legs good, two legs baaad.” What he means is that you should trust the animal that is more sturdy—that sheep don’t teeter and wobble like those unruly two-legged humans.

What were the top tech and eSecurity trends of 2022? What can be said about 2022 that hasn’t already been said? You’ve likely already been inundated with perfunctory retrospectives on the ‘year that was’—the Ukraine War, Elon Musk, inflation, midterms, Kanye West, ‘the slap’, Messi, et al. But I would like to think that 2022 […]

It’s finally Blaber Fronday! We’re offering a money saving deal for e-sign, e-security and file sharing that happens only once a year. These days, if you want a memorable catchphrase, you opt for the portmanteau—where two words or names become one (e.g. “brunch”, “chillax”, “Brangelina”). Everybody’s doing it—even health policy wonks (“twindemic”, “tripledemic”) and economists […]

RMail’s Lookalike Domain Detector Alerts a Sender after They Click Forward, Reply or Reply All–before the Email Is Sent Before we begin today’s tech tip, we first wholeheartedly thank all Veterans for their courage and commitment past and present. It is this, that gives us others the opportunity to worry about free society business risks, […]

From ALTA ONE, The Top 3 Peer Insights (We Took Notes for You) The American Land Title Association conference in San Diego (ALTA ONE) was quite an event – on beautiful Coronado Beach, white sand, and (unfortunately) more fog and rain than most expected for California-in-drought. We at RPost had a team of cybersecurity experts […]

We’ll Make Etymology of Acronym-Originated Tech Speak Interesting… and Useful. Yes, it’s still the year of the tiger – a year of supposed unbound prosperity. But with the stock market plunging, and cybercrime flourishing, I thought it might be nice to forget about tigers and put on another hat, one of an etymologist.

New email location Active Tracker — Now you can see who is reading what, WHERE and WHEN. Managers have a lot on their plates in this (mostly) post-pandemic world. Whether it’s coordinating hybrid work schedules, negotiating new lease space, or determining what vaccine policies and recommendations are now valid, there’s now a new wrinkle regarding […]

The Face of Big Brother Changes, as do Wire Taps Back in the day, with Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA recording all our digital communications, it became apparent that George Orwell’s 1984 image of Big Brother was made manifest: Big Government.