Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Twitch – the video streaming platform favoured by many gamers and content providers has been in the mainstream and tech news since yesterday because they had a cybersecurity leak! (The image at the head of the page was snipped from Twitch’s web site about 20 minutes ago!) It appears that …
You may think you know exactly what a common word means in normal life, but once you get into any kind of specialised subject, the meanings can be different. Today I shall give you the meanings of a few words in cyber security, together with everyday examples of what the …
Today’s security snippet comes from Randall Munroe at xkcd – pop over there now and have a look: https://xkcd.com/2522/ I have to agree with sentiment of the comic, multi-factor authentication (MFA, but see note below) can be difficult to set up, no one does it the same, authenticator apps can …
Here is a link to the NCSC weekly threat report for week ending 1/10/2021: Weekly Threat Report – NCSC.GOV.UK
Bruce Schneier’s blog today is pointing at a useful reference document about VPNs. It is produced the The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) both United States agencies and it is targeted at a US audience but it still contains a useful set of …
