Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is the 1000th news feed post here at Smart Thinking, so I was told by Marketing I needed to do something special. I would have simply gone on reporting the stories of the day and giving out advice, making sure you are all provided with a range of cyber …
Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
Plug-ins is a way of vendors and third-parties extending the functionality of software – it work very well, the success of WordPress is partly based on plug-ins. Now the threat actor vendors are taking the same approach with their malware – with the plug-ins helping to obfuscate the malware to …
Disabling risky services for any OS or software “out-of-the-box” is always a good idea. If you need it, then you or your system administrators can enable it. A brute force attack is where a threat actor – or normally a threat actor computer – will try a range of different …
If it is harmful content in New Zealand then surely most of the rest of the world would consider it harmful. And if it can be done in New Zealand – why not the rest of the world – the Big Tech have enough money: Social media companies promise to …
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