Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This post was first published on 31 August 2022 Update 5 October 2022 The cost of this attack – to the local taxpayer – is now predicted to be £1m. Russia-linked cyber attack could cost Gloucester City Council £1m – BBC News “Every time I ask the question about the …
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The Canadian based Citizen Lab has released a report about the use of the Pegasus spyware in Mexico: New Pegasus Spyware Abuses Identified in Mexico – The Citizen Lab Each time one of these well researched reports is published it seems to make the claims that these cyber weapon producing …
The Conservatives having spent the summer choosing our new Prime Minister, will let the MPs return to work and The Online Safety Bill will be back in the House. I have written about this bill and its ups and downs a lot. I like the protection it gives to the …
“If asked by the government to weaken encryption, it would be “very foolish” to accept, Will Cathcart told the BBC.” BBC News website Will Cathcart is Head of WhatsApp at Meta. WhatsApp: We won’t lower security for any government – BBC News
Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
Software is complex, we understand that. Which is why we accept patches and updates to fix functionality and security issues. However when Microsoft gets it wrong – you have to winder why they did not test more – it is their code. Microsoft’s latest security patch troubles Windows 11 users …
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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