Over the past few weeks, I have been writing about privacy for CyberAwake – I have linked the articles below – and at the same time, I was reading up on encryption for an article here last week on the value of encryption – Encryption or Not Encryption. Both sets …
Encryption or Not Encryption
I am a great advocate of clients using encryption to enhance their cyber security and I have written a number of articles explaining how encryption is an easy cyber security step to implement. Here are a couple of them: In Support of Encryption Email Encryption I also think encryption is …
Celebrity Phishing Attack
On his own confession – Nick clicked on a link in what looked like a genuine email from X and then lost control of his account. The email had explained that he had made a post that had violated X’s rules and his account was going to be closed – …
The day before Patch Tuesday…
Apple has released an emergency security patch for iPads and iPhones: Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks The types of attack described would probably not impact the ordinary user – but a cyber security patch is a cyber security patch, who knows who else may come along the …
Google issues Android updates to fix zero-day exploits
Every vendor must do it – issue cyber security patches. For app vendors, if you use the app, you get the updates. For operating systems like Windows and the various flavours of Apple OS it is straight forward as the vendors have direct control of the OS and push regular …
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