I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …
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, …
Fake cheat codes should get you thinking about your hybrid workers
I am never popular when I am helping organisations create cyber security plans and I insist that company laptops are only for company business. This applies double when the laptop is used at home or on holiday – you cannot let your significant other or others use the company computer. …
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I have an LG TV!
Researchers at BitDefender have discovered cyber security flaws in WebOS, the operating system used in LG smart TVs. Over 90,000 LG Smart TVs may be exposed to remote attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) I manual ran a software update on my TV to ensure it is running the latest secure version of WebOS. …
Devices and Cyber Security – A Primer
I have written a number of articles over the past few weeks about how organisations need to be thinking about theirs’s and their employee’s devices and cyber security. Device Security (Pt. 1) Device Security (Pt. 2) Device Security Just One More Thing… When hardware reaches EOL – Device Security These …
Device Security (Pt. 3) Just One More Thing…
This article was previously published on CyberAwake but as it discusses some fundamental ideas about mobile device security and app stores, I thought it should be published here as well. Following on from my two latest articles looking about device security (linked below), I am coming back to the subject, …
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Device Security (Pt. 2)
This is the second part to my article on device security, the first part is here: Device Security (Pt. 1) – CyberAwake Back to Basics – Device Security I finished the first part of this article taking a brief look at hybrid home workers, but of course hybrid working does …