On Monday I ran a post about passkeys and the end of the password – but of course that is the future of cyber security, today we still depend on passwords. We all know a good password is a combination of upper and lower case letters with numbers and some …
WordPress… again…
It is a while since I have highlighted the cyber security risk of using WordPress. As WordPress promotes, it is the most popular website and content management package in the world and it is very well supported with plugins to add that extra functionality you need. But being so popular …
Bugged by Phishing Email Attacks
Let’s start the “Wednesday Bit” for 2024 with a tale of phishing emails, but first… I hope you had a Happy Christmas and New Year. Diana and I did. We did take some time off, spent it with family, travelled a bit and paid rather less attention to our email …
Unsolicited MFA prompts
Last Wednesday I published my MFA Primer series and part two looks at this type of cyber attack against multi-factor authentication. In brief when the threat actors have a valid set of credentials they repeatedly try and access the service with them, generating multiple MFA requests to your authenticator app. …
MFA – A Primer
For the Wednesday Bit this week I am going to point you at a series I recently wrote about multi-factor authentication (MFA) – whilst I go out and do some Christmas Shopping! MFA is an important part of any cyber security plan and you should at least understand the basics …
Booking.com hacked
There are reports of customers being angry with the response of Booking.com to a cyber-attack that has compromised their systems and has resulted in the theft of money from customers by the hackers. Booking.com users angry at firm’s response to hacks – BBC News How a company responds to its …
Padlock?
This week we will start off with something that everyone using a web browser should be aware of, but it appears that is not the case. The vast majority of us have no idea what the padlock icon on our internet browser is – and it’s putting us at risk …