Ada Lovelace was born, today in 1815 and her contributions to technology, computing and coding are still recognised today. Ada is celebrated each year on the second Tuesday of October with Ada Lovelace Day. The day was founded in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson on the second …
Because It’s Friday – Bruce Schneier on CAPTCHA
Regular readers know I read and quote a lot of stuff by Bruce Schneier, today he will make you smile: CAPTCHA – Schneier on Security Have a good weekend. Clive
Vulnerable and malicious Android apps
There have been several stories this week highlighting issues with Android apps: Compromised Android keys used to sign info-stealing malware • The Register Android malware apps with 2 million installs spotted on Google Play (bleepingcomputer.com) New ‘Zombinder’ platform binds Android malware with legitimate apps (bleepingcomputer.com) I have written about the …
Cyber Security advice for hybrid working over the holidays
Threat actors are very aware that over the holidays more people will be working from home – I know our team will be. With this new target audience available everyone can expect the hackers to step up the phishing and social engineering attacks and be looking around for that useful …
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Zerobot malware targets a wide range of vulnerable devices – are your devices on the list?
From online CCTV cameras to popular router modems, Zerobot malware is infecting devices that have not been patched to build a network to carry out distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). New Zerobot malware has 21 exploits for BIG-IP, Zyxel, D-Link devices (bleepingcomputer.com) The Bleeping Computer article has the details …
