Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have been away for a couple of weeks and on my return I caught up with what Randall Munroe has been publishing on xkcd.com. I found a few that I just had to include here… Holiday WiFi When we get to our time-share in Aviemore, one of the first …
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…with great power there must also come — great responsibility! Stan Lee – Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962) A company with little accountability can blacklist your organisation’s email servers and not tell you why – and your hosting company pays for the privilege: Sp*mh**s warns email hygiene has worsened • The …
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The US The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has risen to the challenge of finding the encryption we will need when quantum (or just really capable) computers are developed in the future. After a strenuous vetting period they found four contenders to work with: NIST Announces First Four …
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There are a lot of issues around facial recognition (Kostka, Steinacker and Meckel. 2021). Law enforcement likes it, that makes sense, but then where do they get their footage to examine from? Should we have privacy when we walk down a street? What happens if the machine learning behind the …
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An air-gapped system is designed to be very secure. It is not connected to any other system, network or internet – literally a physical gap between it and the rest of the IT world. If it is not connected, then threat actors cannot connect to it. Mordechai Guri, from Ben-Gurion …
