Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Yesterday as part of our October BeCyberSmart blog and Octagon’s regular blog both myself and Martin wrote about passwords: Leaks – #BeCyberSmart – Smart Thinking Solutions YOUR CREDENTIALS – are they safe? – Octagon Technology Today I wanted to tell you about what a strong password is so I have …
This story has been doing the rounds on the tech news sites for a couple of days. Hackers have had unauthorised access inside the systems of one of the worlds global communications backbone companies for nearly five years. Syniverse (a company millions of people seem to be dependent on but …
Twitch – the video streaming platform favoured by many gamers and content providers has been in the mainstream and tech news since yesterday because they had a cybersecurity leak! (The image at the head of the page was snipped from Twitch’s web site about 20 minutes ago!) It appears that …
You may think you know exactly what a common word means in normal life, but once you get into any kind of specialised subject, the meanings can be different. Today I shall give you the meanings of a few words in cyber security, together with everyday examples of what the …
However here is a [pretty] simple explanation why – with notes and software steps. Facebook Outage: Yes, its DNS (sort of). A super quick analysis of what is going on. (sans.edu) Bruce Schneier had this to say about the outage: Facebook Is Down – Schneier on Security
