There is no denying the fact that the compulsory Qatari World Cup apps, Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the World Cup, will be collecting a lot of information on everyone attending. This …
The supply chain is complicated – which is why it is vulnerable to exploitation
Bruse Schneier has an interesting article out today, describing how a Russian company that produces code that is included in thousands of smartphone apps, both iOS and Android, masquerades as an US company. Russian Software Company Pretending to Be American – Schneier on Security There is no suggestion of wrong …
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Do you use Cisco AnyConnect? If so make sure you have ALL the clients patched.
Threat actors are carrying out massive attacks, looking for unpatched Cisco AnyConnect Windows clients: Cisco AnyConnect Windows client under active attack • The Register
CISA security advisories
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is a good source of cyber security information – which is why I try and pass on those that are relevant to my readers. Here are two of the latest: Their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog is a resource for tracking flaws and issues …
There was the story of taking burner phones to China for the Olympics – now we have the Qatar World Cup spyware
I found this on Bruce Schneier’s blog: I covered the story of the Beijing 2022 Olympics and the privacy issues raised for those attending, and the advice that burner phones would be a good idea because of China’s internet and privacy policies: Privacy in China and the Winter Olympics – …