The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a cyber security notification about Cisco devices: Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products | CISA
Ikea smart bulbs that your neighbours can control!
The Internet of Things, a great idea, when they are secure – these lights from Ikea obviously are not: Ikea smart bulbs can be exploited to force them to blink • The Register Your takeaway from this is to look at your IoT and connected devices (such as CCTV) and …
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Negotiating with cyber criminals is not recommended…
For a start they are criminals, trying to extort you. I have heard business owners comment on ransomware gangs as though they are businesses you need to interact with. Now I know threat actors are shaping themselves to be business like with, help desks, means of paying the ransoms, public …
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The Deepfake threat
As computing power increases and the ability of cloud platforms and software to create realistic deepfake impersonations of people improves, so does the increased use of such techniques by threat actors – of course. Here are a couple of articles looking at the technology and the threat: Seeing is disbelieving: …
Were you a lab rat?
Here is an interesting article about privacy, looking at how LinkedIn (Microsoft) loosely interpreted its privacy policies so it could experiment on twenty million users: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users | Ars Technica
