Guernsey’s Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan has published a report showing that the leaking of personal data on the island has risen. More than 1,000 people affected by data breaches – BBC The Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) says over 1500 people have been impacted. The reported stated …
Let’s start the week with WordPress
I am going to promise you a good news story for the “Wednesday Bit” tomorrow as we start the week off with another vulnerability with WordPress that is probably impacting many organisations without their knowlege. Why? Because they just let their web designers get on with the website without any …
Let’s finish the week with another device security article
Device security has definitely been the theme of this week and I thought this article by Dan Goodin on Ars Technica illustrated the problem of insecure devices – especially routers. Hacked and used by both threat actors and national espionage teams. Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office …
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Back to Basics – The Collection II
This week the Wednesday Bit is for reminding you about my collection of mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers. There have been a number of additions, updates and changes since I first ran a “Collection” article. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some …
It looks like being a week of device security – these numbers should convince you to do something
I have written about the risks of Android apps – a lot, see the highlights of the issue here: Device Security (Pt. 2) | Smart Thinking Solutions However to reinforce the statement that apps downloaded from the Google Play Store can be a serious security risk on your organisation’s information, …
More on Device Security
This is a very good follow on article from – When hardware reaches EOL | Smart Thinking Solutions. Device cyber security is rarely taken seriously by organisations or individuals and it is really important when that device is connected to the internet, and what device today is not connected to …
When hardware reaches EOL
EOL – End of Life. With hardware this can mean that when the iPhone is dropped down the toilet or the laptop is dropped down the stairs, they have reached the end of their service life. But usually it is something more subtle – hardware reaches EOL when vendors stop …