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Posted on 8 March 20238 March 2023

Good cyber security = Be Alert

Social Engineering

I have written many time about how threat actors are always looking for the human event that they can take advantage of – with no scruples! The bigger the event, the bigger the opportunity. They have no scruples so to them it does not matter that they are taking advantage …

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Posted on 6 March 202311 March 2023

Twitter, trolls, child abuse, redundancies and Musk

Here is an opinion piece from the BBC, by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent looking at the current state of Twitter. Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say – BBC News The state of Twitter is probably quite important seeing how many official …

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Posted on 3 March 20232 March 2023

YouTube accused of collecting information on under 13 year olds

This issued can arise because under aged users – YouTube states its video service is not intended for anyone under 13 – can view child content on family devices logged into an adult account: YouTube accused of collecting UK children’s data – BBC News A complaint has been made to …

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Posted on 1 March 20231 March 2023

TikTok the story cyber security continues

Following the calls around the world for TikTok to be banned from governmental offices and official organisations (see yesterday), Joe Tidy, the Cyber Correspondent at the BBC has the TikTok response to the accusations that the service is not secure as the Chinese Government can get access to anything. TikTok …

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Posted on 28 February 202313 March 2023

Rishi Sunak and TikTok

Privacy by Design

TikTok is a Chinese company and concerns over the influence and access the Chinese government has to the information held by Chinese companies has led to official requests for the Prime Minister to ban the use of TikTok within government. Rishi Sunak faces calls to ban TikTok use by government …

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