Having missed a week – the NCSC is back with it’s weekly report: Weekly Threat Report 20th May 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 20 May 2022
Good faith hackers – they do exist
Cyber security investigations often mean carrying out tasks that by the letter of the (US or UK) are illegal – it is the nature of the job. In the United Kingdom we have two critical pieces of legislation that a cyber security consultant could fall foul of: Computer Misuse Act …
Chatbot phishing
Phishing campaigns usually depend on social engineering and threat actors are always looking for new ways to exploit your trust: Phishing scam adds a ‘chatbot-like’ twist to steal credit card information and more – The Record by Recorded Future
UN Cybercrime treaty
Negotiations are underway, at the United Nations, for a comprehensive international treaty to combat cyber crime and increase the co-operation between nations when it comes to investigations. However there are starting to be concerns that the treaty may end up breaking hard earned privacy rights of the individual law abiding …
Morals in the Metaverse
This is an article worth reading by Laurie Clarke. It starts with a disturbing account of one woman’s experience of the fledgling Metaverse and goes on to look at the technology, issues and solutions that may shape the next step in immersive technology. Can we create a moral metaverse? | …
