I blogged last week about some articles recommended by Bruce Schneier. There is a third part to the series. Securing Your Smartphone – Bruce Schneier Securing your digital life, part three: How smartphones make us vulnerable – Ars technica The article starts with a great quote: There are, by some …
Festive Scams – everyone needs to be vigilant and share your knowledge
I think by now we all understand that hacking and scamming is an operation for profit without conscience or morals. The BBC has this warning article showing that young or old, tech savvy or not everyone can be a victim of theses con-artists. ‘We lost festive savings in family WhatsApp …
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Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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Are you still using RDP? If so examine your risk!
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was very popular, until it’s vulnerabilities came to light. It’s time to disconnect RDP from the internet | WeLiveSecurity Today Sans Internet Storm is reporting an increase in probes being initiated against RDP services – even though it is a well known weak service. Remote Desktop …
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Ransomware: NCSC says Russia is responsible – #BeCyberSmart
Lindy Cameron (photo above from NCSC website), the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has made a strong speech emphasising the devastating threat ransomware poses to businesses and organisations. Lindy Cameron at Cyber 2021, Chatham House – NCSC.GOV.UK UK cyber head says Russia responsible for ‘devastating’ ransomware …
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You can take all the defensive steps you can think of then there is a Zero-Day!
A zero-day attack refers to the gap between the “secret” launch of a cyber attack and the subsequent discovery of the attack and mitigation being available. In this gap your defences have not yet been updated because your security vendor is unaware there is problem. Your systems a laid bare …
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You must do this if you use Microsoft 365
Do you want more security from ransomware? Michael, one of the support team over at Octagon Technology has written about one of the often overlooked steps by user of Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 Security – Octagon Technology You should also look at their Pick-up and Go solution – 365R.
