Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A report from SonicWall shows that the number of Ransomware has dropped over the past months – however this is not the good news it appears to be as they have only dropped from the record highs of 2020/2021 and are still way above levels previous to that. 2022 SonicWall …
Hacking the technology in a Tesla car is almost becoming its own sub-genre of cyber-attacks. This one exploits the technology used in the electronic key fob. NFC Relay Attack on TESLA Model Y (ioactive.com) A relay attack is where the hacker stands behind you in the petrol station queue, although …
This post was originally published on 14 June 2022. Update 5 September 2022 ENCSecurity has updated it’s ENCDataVault software to fix these issues – so now I can update and resume using my portable SanDisk USB drive. Update for ENCDataVault Software – ENC Security Help Center (zendesk.com) Watch out for …
I have reported on other air gap exploits by Mordechai Guri, from Ben-Gurion University in Israel – here are two more ways that the secure air gapped system can be exploited: GAIROSCOPE: Injecting Data from Air-Gapped Computers to Nearby Gyroscopes (arxiv.org) ETHERLED: Sending Covert Morse Signals from Air-Gapped Devices via …
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This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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