Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This research by Okta highlights the issue of users recycling passwords: Okta: Credential stuffing accounts for 34% of all login attempts (bleepingcomputer.com) There were more login attempts by threat actors than legitimate ones! They were just trying out passwords to see if someone was stupid, (sorry if you do not …
I have a friend from the MSc course, who is a teacher here in the UK, and he is often caught by the schools very high security stance, when he is trying to teach cyber security to his students. Many of the legitimate sites and resources he wants access to …
The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the associated ceremonies and period of national mourning will be no exception: Potential phishing activity update – NCSC.GOV.UK The National Cyber Security Centre has issued a warning that the potential for malicious phishing, social engineering and scam cyber-attacks is very high …
Yesterday Apple had its September event where all the new toys were revealed, including iOS 16 – which will be on the new devices announced and available as an upgrade for iPhones going back to 2017. The new iOS and MacOS will both support passkey security rather than passwords. Apple …
Usually when I am discussing smartphone app security, Apple iOS has an advantage over Android apps, because of it’s curated App store that stops (most) of the security issues from getting through to the end user’s devices. Now researchers have discovered Amazon Web Service credentials hard coded, by careless developers …
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