Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The Register discusses the findings of researcher, Scott Helme, who discovered that just under a third of websites did not have https enabled by default. HTTPS by default now accounts for 70% of websites • The Register Get a TLS/SSL certificate and enable https on any site you are responsible …
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Here is an article exploring the attempts to subvert the Tor anonymous web browser. Russia’s Internet Censorship Machine Is Going After Tor | WIRED UK My previous article on this issue. Tor relays the Tor Browser and the loss of privacy – Smart Thinking Solutions
Holly Hancock (Lecturer in Tort Law, University of East Anglia) has an article on The Conversation looking at the upside of the Twitter privacy changes. She backs this up with research that she is submitting for her PhD. Twitter has banned posting of images of people without their consent – …
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A vulnerability has been discovered in a component of Minecraft, Log4j, an open-source logging tool that’s used in many online applications. Zeroday in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet | Ars Technica
Ben looks at privacy and in particular Full Disk Encryption (FDE).
