Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I said last week that we would not be coming back to space this week, well obviously that is not true, but this is a Star Trek story! From the original series to Picard, we’ve ranked every starship Enterprise [Updated] | Ars Technica My personal favourite is #3. Star Trek …
At the end of a week of cyber security news – most of which is not happy stuff – it is good to go into the weekend with something lighter. This week a big rocket – the SpaceX Starship. Fully laden with about 5,000 metric tons of liquid oxygen and …
Continue reading “Because It’s Friday – The largest rocket ever launched the SpaceX Starship”
Well no. I built a password cracking system as part of my University course, it was not very powerful and passwords beyond five characters took forever t crack, but it proved the point. The threat of quantum computing password cracking is out there on the horizon somewhere. That brings us …
I spotted this article in The Conversation – volcanoes in space – just the type of story I like for Because It’s Friday, to ease us all into the weekend. Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System (theconversation.com) The image above is of a volcano on Io, the most volcanically …
Continue reading “Because It’s Friday – Volcanoes or a Dyson Sphere?”
The Emotet botnet comes and goes, but it is still one of the top cyber security threats active today. Its flexibility and updates have kept it in use by threat actors whilst other malware has been defeated by cyber security defences. The latest versions are still arriving in phishing emails, …
Continue reading “One of the top cyber security threats has some new tricks”
