Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
…pssst. I have a secret. What’s the password? Passwords have been around forever. In the Bible the password was “shibboleth”, the Romans had “watchwords”, “tessera” is Latin for password and who could forget “Open Sesame”. In our connected, digital world we all depend on them and have depended on them …
It is a while since I have highlighted Android malware – TrickMo attracted my attention for the simplicity of just imitating lock screens to steal your information. TrickMo malware steals Android PINs using fake lock screen (bleepingcomputer.com) But the malware does not stop there it among the malicious tasks it …
This story is about the wise decision I made many years ago and have been preaching on this site and Octagon Technology and CyberAwake and every course and talk I have given. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine webistes have been hacked and the user authentication database containing 31 million …
Not for you but for developers and programmers. I they do not set effective password parameters then it can be too easy for a user to take a shortcut to a poor password and poor cyber security. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules – Schneier on Security Your Takeaway If …
Diana has written this week’s “Wednesday Bit” on QR Codes. Last week I became aware of a significant problem with QR codes, which are used by many organisations and individuals to direct people to their websites or sales pages. Such codes have been in use now for many years. (BizTechReports, …
