Yesterday Apple had its September event where all the new toys were revealed, including iOS 16 – which will be on the new devices announced and available as an upgrade for iPhones going back to 2017. The new iOS and MacOS will both support passkey security rather than passwords. Apple …
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 …
FBI Credential Stuffing warning
The reuse of password by users is still probably the most common cyber security mistake organisations and individuals make – making a credential stuffing attacks profitable for threat actors. Once a threat actor has gathered their lists of credentials then they – or rather their automated tools will attempt to …
Let’s talk about passwords again. Complex is king.
Passwords are still an important part of everyone’s cybersecurity, whilst we wait for the passwordless society to come round. Here is a weekend read from Bleeping Computers looking at password strength: Cyber Awake | Train Your Team To Protect Against Cyber Attacks(opens in a new tab) The Benefits of Making …
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Do you have a password on your VNC server? 9000 users didn’t.
We have clients who use the popular VNC (Virtual Network Computing) service to access computers – all of them implement our security policy. Do you have a security policy that covers this type of software and access? Over 9,000 VNC servers exposed online without a password (bleepingcomputer.com)
