I admit I write about updates a lot – but they are important, as illustrated by the chaos caused by CrowdStrike. You cannot live without them and sometimes you cannot live with them. I often use this slide, quoting Bruce Schneier, when I write about updates – you are guaranteed …
Not a cyber security issue but it still needs patching…
Continuing the device theme this week – what happens when those devices we rely fail to work properly because they are missing a patch? If it is your firewall then you have a cyber security issue and you need to contact us for some help. If it is your alarm …
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We will all have to wait
The promised replacement for the lack lustre Action Fraud service will not be delivered on time. The UK government and the City of London police promised a new online service for reporting cyber fraud by Q2 of this year but the contractors Capita and PwC have failed to deliver. Being …
AI and your Cyber Security
This article by Oli Buckley, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of East Anglia and Jason Nurse, Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent takes a balanced look at how AI is starting to help threat actors create more believable attacks. Cybercriminals are creating their own …
Towards Secure AI
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has joined with other international government agencies, with responsibility for cyber security, from around the world to create guidelines for the secure developement of AI systems. These guideline cover, data poisoning, input manipulation, privacy and IP threats, re-identification of anonomised data, model stealing and …