The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking into a new feature of Windows 11 and Copilot where the operating system will automatically screenshot what you are doing every few seconds. The upcoming feature, called Recall, will be able to access the locally stored, encrypted images to enhance the user experience …
The Phishing Email and AI (pt. 3)
I have used the first two parts of this mini-series on Phishing attacks to look at the more general subject of social engineering because phishing is an application of social engineering aimed at you and your organisation. Start to understand the “how” of social engineering and you start to build …
13 Billion downloads
I am going to quote the BleepingComputer article by Sergiu Gatlan to illustrate the reach of the vulnerability in Fluent Bit. “Fluent Bit is an extremely popular logging and metrics solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS embedded in major Kubernetes distributions, including those from Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft …
Is my phone listening to me?
I have been asked this question many times and my normal response is yes – otherwise how does Siri and Google know when to respond when you want something. What people really want to know is my phone spying on me – and the probable answer to that is yes …
Because It’s Friday – Motorway Driving
I am in Scotland this week, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ayr, for work so my life contains a lot of motorway driving. That reminded me of this BBC archive video, from Blue Peter in 1965, of what motorways were like when they were first built. How many of you used to …
