You you start to order that holiday, and part way through completing the online form, your partner finds a better deal on their phone – so you stop and close that web page and go to the next one. I am sure that every reasonable thinking person (that will be …
That selfie you posted online gives more away about you than you thought…
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 are back in the news
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 …
Zero-day security vulnerabilities exploited in 2021 – UPDATED 25 4 2022
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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What can a hacker do? Swap your BTC address for theirs, when you copy and paste!
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 …
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