Cisco – a company that likes to remind us how much of their hardware makes up the infrastructure of the internet – has released a statement warning that an “unintentional debugging credential” has not been removed from some of their devices before they were sold. This affects devices found in …
Don’t tell him Pike!
Such is the sophistication of the bad actors on the web that it is easy to get caught out and let people steal your credentials. Have you seen those games on Facebook, where for example you are asked to give the name of your first pet and the road you …
Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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Think you’re secure? Think again. #BeCyberSmart
Thinking you are sufficiently protected against security threats is not good enough. You need to know! Governance and management are a major part of getting security right. How do you measure up? Without the right policies and processes in place and adhered to, you are not truly secure. We can …
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Another balancing act – #BeCyberSmart
This infographic sets out the similarities and differences between privacy and security, and illustrates some of the issues around making data available whilst maintaining all the protections. Again another balancing act you need to understand.