Weekends here at Smart Thinking is when we run background and more in depth, longer reads about cyber security and technology. So, we are starting our Cyber Security Awareness month – an event which will be all over social media – with an article about social media. As Clive often …
Here is where automated law enforcement falls flat on its face
We have similar issues with the firewall security we maintain at a legal firm – some of the lawyers deal with distressing cases and our monitoring and filtering has to be done on a very granular level to enable their work but protect the rest of the users, and we …
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Because It’s Friday – Janet Jackson cyber threat!
In a week where I can quote Stan Lee, in the context of cyber security, here is one of the weirdest technology stories we have featured in our “Because It’s Friday” segment. Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops • The Register The threat has a CVE listing …
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Is your email server blacklisted? The Peter Parker Principle.
…with great power there must also come — great responsibility! Stan Lee – Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962) A company with little accountability can blacklist your organisation’s email servers and not tell you why – and your hosting company pays for the privilege: Sp*mh**s warns email hygiene has worsened • The …
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Hacking Google
Stefan Friedli from the Google Red Team has written an interesting article on they hack and test the Google systems. Meet the team responsible for hacking Google (blog.google)