Privacy Badger

privacy badger in the wild

Let’s start the Spring run of the “Wednesday Bit” with a positive story. A story in which, if you choose to participate, your online privacy will get that much better. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy Badger I have written about Privacy Badger before, as part of a previous “Wednesday …

MoD Cyber Attack

It has been reported that the UK government’s Ministry of Defence has suffered a data breach. An an armed forces payroll system was compromised and Grant Shapps MP, the Defence Secretary has reported to MPs that state involvement cannot be ruled out. MoD data breach: State involvement cannot be ruled …

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 …