Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Sometimes the easiest and best storage for your workflow, is a portable USB memory stick and the one thing that gives us a headache when we are carrying out a cyber security survey is the use of portable USB memory sticks! Do you want too why? Then hop over to …
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This post was originally published on 14 June 2022. Update 5 September 2022 ENCSecurity has updated it’s ENCDataVault software to fix these issues – so now I can update and resume using my portable SanDisk USB drive. Update for ENCDataVault Software – ENC Security Help Center (zendesk.com) Watch out for …
The US The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has risen to the challenge of finding the encryption we will need when quantum (or just really capable) computers are developed in the future. After a strenuous vetting period they found four contenders to work with: NIST Announces First Four …
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Bruce Schneier has an interesting short article on his news feed about URL tracking and Facebook. Web browsers such as Firefox and Brave have the functionality to strip URL tracking data from the URLs you are using to navigate the web – stopping the company that was tracking you, tracking …
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We have come a long way in cryptography and computing since the Colossus electronic computer, (above), was built at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, to break the Lorenz cipher. With the advances in computing technology, there is a foreseeable point in the future, possibly only ten years, when …
