Following my article on Monday here on Smart Thinking: The Guardian has a feature on on going passwordless which is worth reading: TechScape: Apple, Google and Microsoft are about to make passwords a thing of the past | Technology | The Guardian The effectiveness of “passwordlessness” (I just made that …
FIDO – the new word in identity authentication UPDATED 11 May 2022
This post was originally published on 9 May 2022 Original post Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, passwords and usernames seemed like a good idea for security… However in today’s connected and hacked world, where people still think it is OK to use “liverpool” or a …
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Over at Octagon Technology – In the wild right now a phishing text message scam caught by one of the team
Martin, the Operations manager at Octagon has written about a social engineering, phishing scam that was sent to him by a text message. Omicron Scam – Octagon Technology Have a look – you could get the same message! I also write for the Octagon blog (of course). Earlier in the …
Fork bombs for example – why you have to have up to date anti-virus software, be turned on to patching and training UPDATED 11 May 2022
This post was first published on 9 May 2022 Here is yet another example of malware and it’s delivery system from SANS TA578 using thread-hijacked emails to push ISO files for Bumblebee malware – SANS Internet Storm Centre The rise of Bumblebee malware was first reported earlier this month: More …
Budget friendly malware increases your risk
When breaking into a computer system cost significant money and resources, only a few capable individuals and groups did it. Now with the availability of cloud services and mass distribution the best resourced cyber gangs are turning to a gig economy model, combined with the IT “as-a-service” model to sell …
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