Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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…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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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)
When the company that messes up their updates, is Google, on it’s own systems, the impact is wide spread. Google outage: tech giant apologises after software update causes search engine to go down | Google | The Guardian I still stand by this advice, when it comes to your systems: …
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The US The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has risen to the challenge of finding the encryption we will need when quantum (or just really capable) computers are developed in the future. After a strenuous vetting period they found four contenders to work with: NIST Announces First Four …
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