…pssst. I have a secret. What’s the password? Passwords have been around forever. In the Bible the password was “shibboleth”, the Romans had “watchwords”, “tessera” is Latin for password and who could forget “Open Sesame”. In our connected, digital world we all depend on them and have depended on them …
Something a bit different
Johannes Ullrich who writes for Sans Internet Storm – I often quote his work here on Smart Thinking – lives in a part of America which recently has suffered several hurricanes. We talk about preparing for business continuity here – Johannes has written about it when you have to cope …
Because It’s Friday – Where are they now?
Whilst Diana and I were watching the latest Brian Cox documentary, Solar System, Diana queried the speed of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Brian Cox stated it was travelling at 1,000,000 miles a day. Diana thought this was too fast. I had to find out just how fast it was going, …
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Tricky Android Malware
It is a while since I have highlighted Android malware – TrickMo attracted my attention for the simplicity of just imitating lock screens to steal your information. TrickMo malware steals Android PINs using fake lock screen (bleepingcomputer.com) But the malware does not stop there it among the malicious tasks it …
If you use WordPress then read on…
Automattic likes to tell us that it’s product WordPress is the world’s most popular website platform so it is dissapoibnting that a vulnerability has existed in it’s own popular plugin Jetpack since 2016. Jetpack fixes critical information disclosure flaw existing since 2016 (bleepingcomputer.com) How popular is Jetpack? As it offers …