First read this article about domains that are almost the domains of prominent brands and trade names: Do you want fries with that hack | Smart Thinking Solutions Now you know what the problem is, here is a global solution to it: Registrars can now block all domains that resemble …
Do not forget your hardware
We started the week with a look at patches and updates but how many of you also keep up with updating firmware on the hardware you own? I have a Dell laptop and I have paid for an extended warranty and I am very cyber security conscious, so I have …
Let’s start the week with patches and updates
I am always using the above image as it reinforces the message that for good cyber security you need to keep up with the patches and updates for both software and hardware. Our team use a variety of sources to keep up with this job of which the US government’s …
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Because It’s Friday – “The cloud of expanding plasma that used to be the ball”
Let’s start today with the fact that Google says there are far too many characters in my title. The Google appointed SEO gods are only happy if your title has no more 60 characters because they care about * their users. Here comes another quote from today’s video “Google is …
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The Threat Actors will abuse any service for their own ends
Researchers are warning that threat actors are abusing the Google Cloud Run – an application and website development and management service – to distribute banking trojans on an industrial scale: Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massive banking trojan campaign (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway Any applications or software you have written …
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