You use encryption to keep your information secret from unauthorised people – not from everyone. I am going to skip the basics of encryption here as I have covered it in parts 1-3, there are links to those articles at the end of this article. Today, having spent time telling …
Credential Theft
If Have I Been Pwned have these credentials then you can bet that the threat actors have them as well. Have I Been Pwned adds 71 million emails from Naz.API stolen account list (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this It is important you and your team understand the importance of any …
On the day I run a password primer this is in the news…
Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use ‘admin’ as a password It seems even administrators need to read my password primer. Back to Basics – A Password Primer
Update on the 49ers ransomware attack
I covered this story when it broke back in February and it had a connection to me as I have a San Francisco 49ers account. It contained no financial details but I immediately changed my credentials. I do not reuse passwords, so that was a non-issue for me. Now the …
Apple and FIDO
Apple will be releasing iOS 16 to the public this autumn, however the developer release was made at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference 2022. Also announced were an array of forthcoming Apple hardware and software about to be released – what interests me here is that Apple, true to it’s …