Not for you but for developers and programmers. I they do not set effective password parameters then it can be too easy for a user to take a shortcut to a poor password and poor cyber security. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules – Schneier on Security Your Takeaway If …
Android Exploit Needs Patching
I ended last week with an infected Android app, now there is an advisory from CISA to patch a vulnerable Android driver: CISA warns govt agencies to patch actively exploited Android driver (bleepingcomputer.com) NVD – CVE-2021-29256 (nist.gov) Android devices that are used by employees as “BYOD” devices are always difficult …
Our future encrypted security – the new algorithm needs more work
The US The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has risen to the challenge of finding the encryption we will need when quantum (or just really capable) computers are developed in the future. After a strenuous vetting period they found four contenders to work with: NIST Announces First Four …
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What is a cryptopocalypse?
We have come a long way in cryptography and computing since the Colossus electronic computer, (above), was built at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, to break the Lorenz cipher. With the advances in computing technology, there is a foreseeable point in the future, possibly only ten years, when …
Active Mass Scanning for a Movable Type Vulnerability – If you do not know if this impacts you – then your business continuity documentation is not up to date!
SANS Internet Storm Diary is reporting a dramatic increase in the scanning for a vulnerability in the CMS Movable Type – software similar in function to WordPress for the development of web sites and web content. Scans for Movable Type Vulnerability (CVE-2021-20837) – SANS Internet Storm Centre National Vulnerability Database …
