Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Diana and I felt this was a story about privacy that needed to be widely spread. How to spot the software that could be spying on you – BBC News and BBC World Service – Business Daily, Stalkerware: Tech-enabled domestic abuse skyrocketing and Coalition Against Stalkerware (stopstalkerware.org) The technical abuse …
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The future of cyber crime is smart contracts on a blockchain with software bugs! Dan Goodin has an article explaining how a bug (flaw) in the code for drafting a blockchain smart contract, by MonoX Finance, allowed a hacker to steal $31million from them. Really stupid “smart contract” bug let …
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Following my post about the Reith Lecture – I came across this video on YouTube from a excellent creator I follow – Curious Droid. (Did you know I like space?) He talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and artificial neural networks, what the difference is and how they …
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This is a good ruling as it makes the Government’s Cabinet Office responsible for the error it made in disclosing the personal details of people on the 2020 New Year’s Honour list. Cabinet Office | ICO However there is some thing to consider: I have to assume that when the …
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Matthew Comb, a doctoral researcher in digital identity at University of Oxford has a piece in The Conversation looking at the ways governments around the world should be implementing secure COVID vaccination passports. Many vaccine passports have security flaws – here’s how to make them safer (theconversation.com) This is important …
