Here is a good news cyber security story: UK National Crime Agency reveals it ran fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect users’ data (therecord.media) When enquiring about buying distributed denial of service attacks, the hackers were duped into giving their information to law enforcement. An excellent example of social engineering – …
Because It’s Friday – A very big rolling pin
This was published on xkcd last Friday – just missing the Because It’s Friday publishing deadline – so you got hot computers rather than flat planets! Flatten the Planets – xkcd.com Saturn is actually the flattest planet – Google it. I could have chosen from NASA’s huge collection of high …
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Why Zero-day attacks are a real issue
The gap between the vendor discovering a vulnerability and the patch getting to you will always be an issue – this is the zero-day threat. It escalates if the threat actors became aware of the vulnerability and exploits it before the vendor becomes aware. Now research by Mandiant shows that, …
See what Elon Musk’s Twitter responses can do…
A couple of weeks back I posted a link to an article by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent, that examined how Twitter was functioning having now laid so many people off – many of whom appeared to be working as Twitter’s social conscience. Twitter, trolls, child …
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Another new UK agency for cyber security
We have the National Cyber Security Centre – why is this new agency not a department of that? UK creates new National Protective Security Agency • The Register It is a good idea to have a department with these specific responsibilities but a completely new agency – it is our …
