This story has been doing the rounds on the tech news sites for a couple of days. Hackers have had unauthorised access inside the systems of one of the worlds global communications backbone companies for nearly five years. Syniverse (a company millions of people seem to be dependent on but …
Don’t lose that laptop – but if you do… #BeCyberSmart
Continuing our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month From time to time it seems like it is government or MOD policy to leave a laptop on a train or taxi (delete as applicable). Then there are the smartphones that they lose. Thousands of mobiles and laptops lost by UK government in …
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It cannot all be serious… #BeCyberSmart
Today’s security snippet comes from Randall Munroe at xkcd – pop over there now and have a look: https://xkcd.com/2522/ I have to agree with sentiment of the comic, multi-factor authentication (MFA, but see note below) can be difficult to set up, no one does it the same, authenticator apps can …
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report
Here is a link to the NCSC weekly threat report for week ending 1/10/2021: Weekly Threat Report – NCSC.GOV.UK
VPN advice
Bruce Schneier’s blog today is pointing at a useful reference document about VPNs. It is produced the The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) both United States agencies and it is targeted at a US audience but it still contains a useful set of …
