This week we will start off with something that everyone using a web browser should be aware of, but it appears that is not the case. The vast majority of us have no idea what the padlock icon on our internet browser is – and it’s putting us at risk …
CISA round-up
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a number of cyber security here is a round-up of the most recent: The CISA site is one of the “go to places” for me and my team to keep up with vulnerabilities in our client’s software. Although aimed …
How to Bypass Windows Hello
Cyber security researchers by their very nature are always prodding and poking at systems to see what they can break. This time Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs on behalf of Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) have bypassed the Windows Hello (biometric) security systems on some of the most …
The Wednesday Bit this week
One thing I learnt very quickly whilst studying and after graduation was that my degree in cyber security was only the tool to make me think about cyber security properly and unless I kept my personal study up to date the degree would soon become useless. That is why I …
When software has bugs…
Software is complicated – it will have bugs and some of those bugs may have security issues. How you deal with this situation is a key part of your organisation’s cyber security plan. Why? If you are a regular reader here, you would have read about the several zero-day security …
