I am a big advocate of using VPN services – I think they are an important part of everyone’s online privacy – I have listed some of the ways they benefit your security and what to look for in a secure VPN in this article: More about VPNs – CyberAwake …
Do not just give away your information
I have published an article over on our online training site, CyberAwake, that looks at how businesses can leak what appears to be insignificant information, that a hacker can collect and assemble into a picture that can comprise your cyber security: The Basics of Cyber Security – A quick look …
Do you want to know what a ransomware resilient back-up is?
If you, that’s lucky as my latest article on CyberAwake explains just that:: WHAT EXACTLY DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY “RANSOMWARE RESILIENT BACK-UP”?
Do you keep your passwords in LastPass?
Then you should be aware of this – they have suffered a follow up cyber security incident, using information from an incident in August, that breached their security again: Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach (bleepingcomputer.com) An investigation has revealed no customer encrypted passwords were compromised. I …
USB data storage devices – useful but risky
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an article looking at the ups and downs of using USB data storage devices in businesses: If you must use portable USB drives, then you must read this… – CyberAwake One of the down sides was the Japanese man who loss …
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