The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued security advisories for Microsoft and Samsung products: CISA Adds Seven Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA
NCSC is scanning the internet for the UK’s cyber security readiness
…winged ninja cyber monkeys… Dr Ian Levy from the National Cyber Security Centre The title is a bit odd, but the article by Ian Levy from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) does an excellent job of explaining why the NCSC is now scanning the internet looking for vulnerabilities in …
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The Department of Education lack of due diligence
The Information Commissioner’s Office has found that staff at The Department of Education allowed a gambling company access to 28 million children to check if they were 18 when opening an account: No-one needs persuading that a database of pupils’ learning records being used to help gambling companies is unacceptable. …
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More on multi-factor authentication
Last week I wrote about some of the issues with multi-factor authentication: On the same day that I published, The Register also ran an article looking at MFA issues. I am continuing my story next week, but Jeff Burt’s article is worth reading as the more you know about this …
Where is the internet most vulnerable?
The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable helps provide internet connections to more than a dozen countries, from India to Greece. When the cable was cut on June …
