I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …
Let’s start the week with WordPress
I am going to promise you a good news story for the “Wednesday Bit” tomorrow as we start the week off with another vulnerability with WordPress that is probably impacting many organisations without their knowlege. Why? Because they just let their web designers get on with the website without any …
There is no choice but to run cyber security updates…
…but sometimes they go wrong. Microsoft has had to fix a number of problems following the April Patch Tuesday. Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections (bleepingcomputer.com) Microsoft: April Windows Server updates cause NTLM auth failures (bleepingcomputer.com) I included these stories in this week of device security as a …
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Let’s finish the week with another device security article
Device security has definitely been the theme of this week and I thought this article by Dan Goodin on Ars Technica illustrated the problem of insecure devices – especially routers. Hacked and used by both threat actors and national espionage teams. Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office …
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Because It’s Friday – Honest I did not make this up…
I must start with the headline today: The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code | The War Zone (twz.com) The first thing I did was verify the publication date – 3 July 2022, not 1 April. Then I realised that this story was “on message” for …
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