Planet Ice – operators of an ice rink in Bristol – have been hacked and customer data has been compromised. That is the bad news. The good news is – and I am going to say here that Planet Ice planned this, but I have no evidence, just the benefit …
Five simple steps
This is an excellent article by Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management at Microsoft looking at five simple steps any organisation should consider making to improve their cyber security: 5 ways Microsoft helps block threats – Microsoft Security Blog It looks at patches, credentials, monitoring, passwords …
Now OneNote is an attack vector
I am a big user of OneNote. I find it a great tool for connecting my Apple devices to my Microsoft world, for always having that note from a meeting 12 months ago to hand and to find that place of interest I saw on TV whilst on holiday, etc., …
LastPass alternatives – Bitwarden
If you trust someone with your passwords, their security needs to be very good – the popular online password bank LastPass has had some security problems recently and I have made my suggestions for an alternative way to store your passwords. Here is an opinion piece from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
LastPass now admit that the hackers copied the user password files
OK the files are encrypted and supposedly will take forever to crack – using today’s technology. But the real issue here is that LastPass has taken all this time to work out that the hackers did get password files – something that LastPass has previously denied. That denial had reassured …
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