Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
When I use a VPN, I do it because I want my communications across the internet to be private. Apple iOS VPN is not private enough: Two years on, Apple iOS VPNs still leak IP addresses • The Register I always use a VPN when I suspect the internet connection …
I think if you read this blog, you have a smartphone and that the security of that smartphone is important to you. By now you should also understand that the functionality of that smartphone is a trade off between your privacy with the various suppliers. I do not use some …
Many of us use WordPress for our web sites – if you do not know what your web designer is using for you website, then you have a cyber security issue, and you or your cyber security consultant should get in contact with your web designer ASAP. Here is one …
Research company Proofpoint, has shown that the threat actor, tracked as TA558, has increased it’s phishing campaigns targeted at hotel and travel companies, to coincide with the rapid increase in foreign travel as the pandemic decreases. Hackers target hotel and travel companies with fake reservations (bleepingcomputer.com) Threat actors are always …
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This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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