If you trust someone with your passwords, their security needs to be very good – the popular online password bank LastPass has had some security problems recently and I have made my suggestions for an alternative way to store your passwords. Here is an opinion piece from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Bill
The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 13 January 2023
Threat Report 13th January 2023 – NCSC.GOV.UK
Encryption is safe (for the moment)
You can carry on shopping online… At the beginning of the year I ran a short story on some Chinese research that said it had taken a step towards breaking the encryption we all depend on the use the internet and electronic communications securely: Breaking encryption – Smart Thinking Solutions …
If you want to help the hackers attack your organisation – then play the blame game!
It may not appear obvious, but if you look to blame someone when there is a cyber security incident, then it is almost guaranteed that those incidents will always worse than they needed to be. Why? Read about it here: The Blame Game – CyberAwake
