Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Let’s start the Spring run of the “Wednesday Bit” with a positive story. A story in which, if you choose to participate, your online privacy will get that much better. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy Badger I have written about Privacy Badger before, as part of a previous “Wednesday …
It has been reported that the UK government’s Ministry of Defence has suffered a data breach. An an armed forces payroll system was compromised and Grant Shapps MP, the Defence Secretary has reported to MPs that state involvement cannot be ruled out. MoD data breach: State involvement cannot be ruled …
I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …
I am going to promise you a good news story for the “Wednesday Bit” tomorrow as we start the week off with another vulnerability with WordPress that is probably impacting many organisations without their knowlege. Why? Because they just let their web designers get on with the website without any …
…but sometimes they go wrong. Microsoft has had to fix a number of problems following the April Patch Tuesday. Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections (bleepingcomputer.com) Microsoft: April Windows Server updates cause NTLM auth failures (bleepingcomputer.com) I included these stories in this week of device security as a …
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Device security has definitely been the theme of this week and I thought this article by Dan Goodin on Ars Technica illustrated the problem of insecure devices – especially routers. Hacked and used by both threat actors and national espionage teams. Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office …
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I must start with the headline today: The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code | The War Zone (twz.com) The first thing I did was verify the publication date – 3 July 2022, not 1 April. Then I realised that this story was “on message” for …
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