Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have used the first two parts of this mini-series on Phishing attacks to look at the more general subject of social engineering because phishing is an application of social engineering aimed at you and your organisation. Start to understand the “how” of social engineering and you start to build …
I am going to quote the BleepingComputer article by Sergiu Gatlan to illustrate the reach of the vulnerability in Fluent Bit. “Fluent Bit is an extremely popular logging and metrics solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS embedded in major Kubernetes distributions, including those from Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft …
I have been asked this question many times and my normal response is yes – otherwise how does Siri and Google know when to respond when you want something. What people really want to know is my phone spying on me – and the probable answer to that is yes …
I am in Scotland this week, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ayr, for work so my life contains a lot of motorway driving. That reminded me of this BBC archive video, from Blue Peter in 1965, of what motorways were like when they were first built. How many of you used to …
7th Intl. Conference on Big Data, Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence Held in the spectacular main Lecture theatre on Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus. The photo is of Professor Bill Buchanan’s opening keynote talk about AI and us. In between looking at how ChatGPT words can be found in university submitted …
Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month that means our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. Our team will keep an eye on the reports for the next day or two to check there …
Zero-day software vulnerabilities are an issue for every vendor – how quick they react to them when they eventually find out they have a problem will be a key part of the risk in your cyber security planning. Google seems to get on this issue really quickly – as far …
