Disabling risky services for any OS or software “out-of-the-box” is always a good idea. If you need it, then you or your system administrators can enable it. A brute force attack is where a threat actor – or normally a threat actor computer – will try a range of different …
This is a technology exercise in when everything goes wrong!
I was put onto this blog post via Bruce Schneier’s blog. I’ve locked myself out of my digital life – Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi) This is why role play and thinking about your operation, is a vital part of creating a cyber security plan that is resilient and provides for …
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What can you buy on the Dark Web?
Here are a couple of connected articles about how easy it is for even inexperienced threat actors, let alone state sponsored ones, to access the raw materials they need to carry out cyber security attacks. The Dark Web is a market like any other – well almost… If you need …
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 …
Good news – Android FluBot malware stopped by Europol
International co-operation between law enforcement agencies in eleven countries has put a stop to FluBot mobile malware which was spreading rapidly rapidly by text messaging between Android devices. This malware was stealing sensitive data such as passwords and banking information from infected Android devices around the world. The complex investigation …
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