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, …
Continue reading “That selfie you posted online gives more away about you than you thought…”
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 …
The ability to sideload apps on an Android device, bypassing any curation in the Google Play Store and the apparent regularity that that app store misses malicious content in Android apps, is an constant cyber security issue for anyone using Android. Here are two recent examples: Android apps with 45 …
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The article from which I have taken the quote is further down the page – but please read the rest of the article first, it is relevant. I ran a post about a talk given by Matt Brittin, from Google, about their vision of privacy by design: Privacy by Design …
