Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have been away for a couple of weeks and on my return I caught up with what Randall Munroe has been publishing on xkcd.com. I found a few that I just had to include here… Holiday WiFi When we get to our time-share in Aviemore, one of the first …
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In a week where I can quote Stan Lee, in the context of cyber security, here is one of the weirdest technology stories we have featured in our “Because It’s Friday” segment. Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops • The Register The threat has a CVE listing …
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Be More Like Dave – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-08-07 | Dilbert by Scott Adams …so you or your cyber security consultant should check any code (web app or software) you have written for you. How secure is open source software? Do you use open source software or have software …
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When I wrote the 1000th post for Smart Thinking, it was because of a suggestion from marketing, so I used binary for counting the top 10 posts, of course. I then got a note from a friend pointing out this post from xkcd.com: xkcd: Roman Numerals Now I could appreciate …
There is plenty of news around about deep fakes – we have all seen the fake videos of various politicians and celebrities saying things they never would. But when was the first deep fake carried out: xkcd: Deepfakes Here is a deepfake from the past that made the news: Piltdown …
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