Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
That headline intrigued you didn’t it? It’s the title of an essay by Bruce Schneier, whose titles are often intriguing. How about “Click here to kill everybody”, “Data and Goliath” or “Liars and Outliers”? Schneier has a great sense of humour and always gives good value as a speaker too. …
Researchers in South Korea have published a paper exposing software vulnerabilities in the Hive ransomware that could mean victims recovering at least some of their data without paying for the encryption keys. Academics publish method for recovering data encrypted by the Hive ransomware – The Record by Recorded Future Here …
Encryption is essential for privacy when using the internet – hence the opposition to the UK Government’s Draft Online Safety Bill, that wants to put controls on the way you and I use encryption to protect the privacy of our private communications and transactions over the web. It is interesting …
Zerodium has announced it will buy bugs from researchers in popular email clients – for white-hat purposes although their actions are controversial. Zerodium looks to buy zero-days in Outlook and Thunderbird email clients – The Record by Recorded Future
The development of quantum computers and the subsequent evaporation of the effectiveness of current cybersecurity algorithms, encryption and software was an often discussed topic during my cybersecurity MSc. But there is no point in being scared by the prospect – but you should be informed – so read this. What …
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