Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Now the SMS text authentication is only working for some people: Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED Do you want to know why SMS text message authentication is a very poor third behind app based multi-factor authentication and just about anything else? Read on: Twitter ‘closes offices’ …
Continue reading “More Twitter issues – and why text messages are a poor authentication option”
The US Government departments, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory under their #StopRansomware project. This advisory examines the Hive ransomware so that cyber security defenders are better equipped …
Yesterday I published my latest article over on our online training site CyberAwake looking at the most basic of cyber-attacks – an infected phishing email. Don’t be tempted to open that zip file A story of a phishing email – CyberAwake Could you people deal with this situation? QBot Malware: …
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 …
Continue reading “The supply chain is complicated – which is why it is vulnerable to exploitation”
My article on one of the methods used by threat actors to erode our faith in multi-factor authentication (MFA) was published over on CyberAwake yesterday: More on MFA and your risks when using it – CyberAwake
