Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have just spotted this – it is Saturday – but I thought I would put it quickly, up as many people depend on Google Chrome for shopping, banking etc: Google Chrome emergency update fixes new zero-day used in attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) This impacts the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, is …
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This is an accidental flaw introduced into the latest version of Chrome, which Google is fixing. Google Chrome bug lets sites write to clipboard without asking (bleepingcomputer.com) The issue with websites being able to write to the system clipboard, is that clipboard often holds sensitive information during a website interaction …
This post was originally made on 2 March 2022. It will be updated as the Russian Ukraine Conflict develops and will highlight the cyber security issues facing organisations and individuals at this time. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising all UK organisations to review and improve their cyber …
This is the 1000th news feed post here at Smart Thinking, so I was told by Marketing I needed to do something special. I would have simply gone on reporting the stories of the day and giving out advice, making sure you are all provided with a range of cyber …
Bruce Schneier has an interesting short article on his news feed about URL tracking and Facebook. Web browsers such as Firefox and Brave have the functionality to strip URL tracking data from the URLs you are using to navigate the web – stopping the company that was tracking you, tracking …
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