Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite criminal laws around the world… Electronic Frontier Foundation Whether your answer is yes or no to the UN Cybercrime Treaty – the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an article looking at some of the problems with the treaty when it comes to …
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There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …
Here is a good news cyber security story: UK National Crime Agency reveals it ran fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect users’ data (therecord.media) When enquiring about buying distributed denial of service attacks, the hackers were duped into giving their information to law enforcement. An excellent example of social engineering – …
TikTok is still in the news – the fact that TikTok’s owners, ByteDance, are a Chinese based company subject to the Chinese laws that gives the government far reaching rights to access any company’s data is the issue. Here is the BBC’s take on the story: TikTok: Why do countries …
Some governments do not like private citizen using VPNs to hide their online activities and protect their privacy. Here is an opinion piece from Ashley Belanger on Ars Technica discussing this: Fighting VPN criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say | Ars Technica
