Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The latest release of Windows 11, now includes Enhanced Phishing Protection, which sounds complicated, and I am sure the implementation of it is complex, but the security advantage it offers is obvious and simple. Windows 11 will warn you when you type a password into an insecure website or application. …
When a threat actor compromises the coding of software the problems can be widepread – the SolarWinds attack and subsequent distribution of the infected software through legitimate update channels is a classic example. (Ironic but the SolarWinds customers who avoided the attack, were those with a poor cyber security stance …
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The headline equally applies to the abuse of LinkedIn Smart Links: LinkedIn Smart Links abused in evasive email phishing attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) This is a feature in the LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Enterprise versions and allows packages of documents to be sent out and the metrics for the documents can be …
This is what cyber security can become. Not sure what it means? It means navel gazing – thinking about one thing to the exclusion of the wider picture. So what am I talking about? You have been sold anti-virus and a firewall, you’ve set the updates to automatic and have …
American Airlines had to write to customers to explain that personal data had been stolen through a cyber-attack – although they did state in the letter that there was no evidence of that personal data having been misused! I would like to see their evidence of that, because I think …
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