Google published three articles yesterday, to do with privacy and cyber security, showing how one of the world’s biggest corporations, that primarily depends on processing and using your online information for profit, is going to take steps to protect you. The first promotes the feature, in Google search, where you …
CISA – Google Chrome updates for all platforms and Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Yesterday the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued and advisory for Google Chrome patches: Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome | CISA They also posted their Microsoft Patch Tuesday advisory: Microsoft Releases May 2022 Security Updates | CISA
Tracking ransomware – Do you have a ransomware plan?
Here is the latest ransomware tracking information from The Record. Ransomware tracker: the latest figures [May 2022] – The Record by Recorded Future Up or down the trend does not matter, ransomware is out there in numbers that make it a threat to any organisation – make sure you have: …
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More low-level cyber criminals joining in
Following Tuesday’s article showing how cyber gangs are distributing malware via a “gig economy model”, so getting very effective attacks into the hands of less skilled cyber gangs, here is the same idea but applied to the most basic of cyber attacks – card skimming. Credit card skimming services make …
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FIDO – the new word in identity authentication UPDATED 11 May 2022
This post was originally published on 9 May 2022 Original post Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, passwords and usernames seemed like a good idea for security… However in today’s connected and hacked world, where people still think it is OK to use “liverpool” or a …
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