Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is a privacy issue right out of fiction. You know, the movie where the hero sees a reflected detail in a photograph and then the techs clean up the indecipherable blur to reveal the villain. Well researchers have been able to get details from the reflections in people’s eyes, …
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Zero-Days – will always be a problem and both Google and Mandiant are reporting rises in such exploitations in 2021. I have reported on this before but the point that comes out in Bruce Schneier’s piece is the numbers these research groups are reporting are detected or declared Zero-Days. What …
This post was first made on 22 April 2022 I regularly write about the issues around the zero-day vulnerability and our Social Engineering and Email Cyber Security Training course aims to equip individuals and organisations to meet the challenge that the zero-day poses. Google’s Project Zero has reported on it’s …
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If you do not know what a BTC address is then this this particular demonstration of of a Python hack will not impact you. If you do use bitcoin or other cryptocurrency then have a look at this SANS blog by Xme: Multi-Cryptocurrency Clipboard Swapper – SANS Internet Storm Centre …
Continue reading “What can a hacker do? Swap your BTC address for theirs, when you copy and paste!”
Napier University’s Cyber Security department used Webex when I was studying there. Here is research that demonstrates that the software could leak audio even when muted. “Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps,” The research looked at many of the apps that have …
