Deliveries – a reminder these are always a hacker attack vector

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 …

Addressing Linux vulnerabilities

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)

First a pandemic now an apocalypse! Click bait but worth a read!

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 …