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 …
Google – “cybersecurity is one of the top issues facing the world today”
The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …
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Shopping for malware
How cheap it is for threat actors, who are less technically able, to set up a technically complex attack has been a theme on the blog over the last few weeks. More low-level cyber criminals joining in Budget friendly malware increases your risk Here is another article showing that the …
Passwordlessness
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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More about “no more passwords”
This is something we have been following in our “weekend read“ features: A big bet to kill the password for good | Ars Technica