Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
With the huge increase in online shopping and deliveries over the past couple of years, these have become one of the favourite attack vectors for cyber criminals. Usually it is some type of impersonation/social engineering attack via email, with the intention to steal sensitive information from you. Just be very …
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As I have said before the prospect of incredibly powerful quantum computers, that could break the encryption that we all currently depend on, was a hot subject of discussion during my Masters course. But as Bruce Schneier shows us today it is along way in the future. Breaking 256-bit Elliptic …
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Following the recent publicity of Linux vulnerabilities, here is an announcement from The Linux Foundation, of $10m of donations to their Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Among the donors are Microsoft and Google. Linux Foundation announces $10 million cross-industry investment in Open Source Security Foundation (scmagazine.com)
The development of quantum computers and the subsequent evaporation of the effectiveness of current cybersecurity algorithms, encryption and software was an often discussed topic during my cybersecurity MSc. But there is no point in being scared by the prospect – but you should be informed – so read this. What …
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This is an excellent opinion piece by Ian Levy. Privacy Versus Security is a False Choice | WIRED UK Here is a quote from his article to get you started: “The pandemic has shown how central global social media, messaging and collaboration platforms have become in people’s everyday lives. However, …
Google’s security team have released a report outlining the active threats they have detected against their services. It includes a number of recommendations to help their users improve their security. Here is the blog: Coin mining, ransomware, APTs target cloud: GCAT report | Google Cloud Blog Here is the full …
Up to seven million users of the share trading app have had their personal information compromised. It appears to be a ransomware attack as Robinhood has said it was a limited breach and have rejected a demand for a payment. Robinhood trading app hit by data breach affecting seven million …
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