Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Whether you develop your WordPress website your self or get a developer to do it for you – your website is your reputation, you need to be managing it. How much are you relying on your web designer to protect your reputation? There are always vulnerabilities being exploited in WordPress …
Research has now revealed that the cause of the recent Apple and Google zero-day patches was the same software library used by both software giants. Libwebp, a library found in millions of apps, was the source of the vulnerability. Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day …
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Writing code for today’s sophisticated software is hard and no matter how careful the vendors are, how many beta and alpha testers they have, errors will always slip through. If those errors compromise the user’s security, you can bet a threat actor will discover them and exploit them. It is …
I am very keen on the work of Bruce Schneier and his stuff pops up here on Smart Thinking from time to time – including this article by Diana: And this quote that I often use when writing about patches and updates: I was interested when on his blog, Bruce …
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I often refer to threat actors and hackers here on Smart Thinking and in other cyber security article I write for other outlets, however these are useful terms but in reality I am writing about cyber criminals. These cyber criminals operate indiscriminately in a globally connected environment and they have …
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