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Tag: CyberAwake

Posted on 25 March 202527 March 2025

Signalgate

I am not sure anyone is actually calling it that… We have all seen and or heard of this story that is running in the US and around the world: Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal group chat leak – BBC News I am not going to get into …

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Posted on 12 March 202513 March 2025

Identity Theft (part 1)

credential management and identity theft

Identity theft, as cyber attacks go, is pretty easy to understand – a threat actor gains control of a user’s credentials (identity) and then attacks the service (organisation), posing as that user. There are nuances but that is the attack in the briefest of terms.  Credential and identity theft are …

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Posted on 6 March 20256 March 2025

Not every hack requires a computer…

snail mail hack

We can all get focused cyber security and technology, our computers, networks, phones and devices etc.. My Cyber Security Awareness Training also discusses the cyber security issue that come by way of text messages and phone calls. But just when we thought we had all the bases covered, hackers discover …

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Posted on 26 February 202525 February 2025

When technical cyber security fails you…

hardware and VPNs

It is not unreasonable to say that ransomware is at epidemic levels, report after report says that malware, ransomware and cyber extortion is on the rise (Beaman, Barkworth, Akande, Hakak and Khan. 2021 and Oz, Aris, Levi and Uluagac. 2021), and that cyber security is important. We all take precautions …

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Posted on 19 February 202520 February 2025

Privacy and Encryption

encryption is essential to privacy

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 …

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