Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Diana has written this week’s “Wednesday Bit” on QR Codes. Last week I became aware of a significant problem with QR codes, which are used by many organisations and individuals to direct people to their websites or sales pages. Such codes have been in use now for many years. (BizTechReports, …
I wrote about QR Code and cyber security over on CyberAwake back in June. Now BleepingComputer is reporting on “Your Boyfriend cheated” posters, which include a QR code and have been put up across the UK. Clickbaity or genius? ‘BF cheated on you’ QR codes pop up across UK (bleepingcomputer.com) …
Here is an interesting article from the National Cyber Security Centre about whether you should trust public QR codes. Now we have had experience with this. One of our clients found that someone had stuck a new QR code over the one they displayed in their window. When I investigated, …
One of our IT clients suffered a minor QR Code attack, when they discovered that their QR code they had displayed in their window had been covered, outside the glass, by another code on a sticker. This code pointed to a Facebook page for a local music gig – so …
Whenever Clive attends a marketing seminar he is often told about the advantages of using a QR to get his message out there. It is true that QR codes are very useful but of course threat actors exploit our trust of them: QR codes used in fake parking tickets, surveys …
