Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I read this article by Nathaniel Tkacz from The Conversation a few days ago: New government app will provide access to public services but questions around privacy and design remain (theconversation.com) It discusses the drive by the UK government to “appify” about 300 government services into a single app with …
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These are the first steps being taken in the rest of Europe to limit the ability of governments, governmental agencies and organisations to biometrically scan their innocent citizens as they walk down the street. The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance – Schneier on Security
I do not want this blog just to be doom and gloom – so from time to time I like something a bit lighter. It cannot all be serious… #BeCyberSmart – Smart Thinking Solutions – and you will learn something useful about multi, two or dual factor authentication (you choose). …
This story has been doing the rounds on the tech news sites for a couple of days. Hackers have had unauthorised access inside the systems of one of the worlds global communications backbone companies for nearly five years. Syniverse (a company millions of people seem to be dependent on but …
However here is a [pretty] simple explanation why – with notes and software steps. Facebook Outage: Yes, its DNS (sort of). A super quick analysis of what is going on. (sans.edu) Bruce Schneier had this to say about the outage: Facebook Is Down – Schneier on Security
