Category: Cyber Crime

• Lessons Of The Father… or things he should have taught you

  A few weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about a man who lost over $40,000 to online scammers, and I was absolutely floored by how anyone could be taken in by such a scam. Please understand that online scammers are very good at what they do. If you are not actively expecting…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 20, 2023

  Banking, Cyber Crime, Scams

• VMware Vulnerability

  This article was sent to me over the weekend. It seems that VMware is no longer immune to ransomware. If you did not believe me before when I told you that patch management was one of your most important defensive weapons in the fight against cybersecurity incidents, please believe me now! Massive ESXiArgs ransomware attack…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 6, 2023

  Cyber Crime, Ransomware, VMware

• System Issues and Public Panic

  Air travel in the United States was severely interrupted by a cyber incident last week. I heard about it on the news as I walked my dog and spent the entirety of that walk framing how I would speak to the incident at the opening of my class later that day. I was teaching a…

  Mitch Garvis

  January 16, 2023

  Cyber Crime, IT Security, Security, System

• Cover Your A$$ – Secure Your WiFi Now!

  I honestly hate saying ‘I told you so.’ For years I have been telling everyone who will listen (and a lot of people who didn’t want to) about the importance of securing wireless networks.  I’ve told stories about the possible consequences, and have scared some of them into doing the right thing.  Unfortunately far too…

  Mitch Garvis

  April 25, 2011

  Article, Blog, Community, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, IT Pro, IT Security, NYPD, Password, Police, SWMI, SWMI Consulting Group, WiFi, WiFi Security, Wireless, Wireless Password

• A Do-it-Yourself SWMI? No sweat!

  Ok, let’s be honest.  We all know that we need to secure our Active Directory infrastructures, but many of us are not entirely sure how.  You may even know that Group Policy is a great tool to do it centrally, but with literally thousands of Group Policy settings available in Windows Server 2008 R2, where…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 3, 2011

  Article, Ask the Expert, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, Deployment, Garvis.ca, GPO, Group Policy, IT Security, SWMI

• Mitch Visits One Police Plaza

  A couple of weeks ago one attendee was a detective with the NYPD, and he offered to take me behind the scenes at One Police Plaza so that I could take a look at a few of the units that use information technology (IT) for a lot more than just paperwork and filing. I had…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 15, 2010

  Article, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, Deployment, Laptop, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft Office, New York, New York Police Department, NYPD, Police, Real Time Crime Center, RTCC, SnagIt, TechSmith, Windows XP