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 …
The Insider Threat
The insider threat – the breaking of trust by one of your team is probably the hardest cyber security incident to deal with. Without trust organisations cannot function. Here is an example from the world stage where China is accused of stealing intellectual property from computer chip manufacturer ASML : …
Breaking encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of our security and privacy online. Without it you could not shop online using your credit card or have a private conversation. Encryption is is encoding of your information using computational methods – the more complicated the computations the more secure the encryption is. But …
TikTok banned from US Government managed phones
Due to security concerns with the Chinese owned app, the United States Government has banned it from any device it manages: US House boots TikTok from government phones • The Register
Other patches and updates in the news
Other companies gather around Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and issue their updates round and about the same time and there are also the critical patches that are issued when needed. Here are some that are in the news but you should be checking your systems for updates: AWS fixes vulnerability affecting …
