President Biden has signed a bill that will charge various departments of the US Government to create a taxonomy for cyber crimes and to analyse and publish these results. Other measurements for responses and effectiveness of cyber security responses will be collected, published and acted on. If cyber crime, the …
CISA security advisory from Microsoft for various Azure products.
Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines | CISA These are enterprise products – but you know the drill:
With a title that includes “Bond Villains” you cannot possibly miss reading this…
A few weeks ago I ran a post that pointed at an excellent article in the New Yorker magazine looking inside the world of the NSO Group the developers of Pegasus. Pegasus is a commercially available spyware cyber-weapon. Inside a commercial spyware company – Smart Thinking Solutions The Canadian research …
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Spam
There has been a big increase in spam because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a radio programme going into the history, background and modern use of Spam. Not quite what you expect… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016wwx
Because It’s Friday – James Webb Space Telescope nearly open for business
Before we start there was an update to last Friday’s “Because It’s Friday”: Because It’s Friday – an ethical dilemma UPDATED 1 May 2022 – Smart Thinking Solutions This week it is space The work on the James Webb space telescope is proceeding and another goal has been reached – …
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