Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
TikTok is a Chinese company and concerns over the influence and access the Chinese government has to the information held by Chinese companies has led to official requests for the Prime Minister to ban the use of TikTok within government. Rishi Sunak faces calls to ban TikTok use by government …
Influences are pushing a new “get rich quick scheme” – get an AI to write a story for you and submit it for publishing. IT has caused one publishing house to close for unsolicited submissions: Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories | The Guardian On top …
If you are using SMS to authenticate your Twitter you will need to switch to another authentication method before 20 March 2023 as Twitter is going to turn the service to save itself $60m. Twitter gets rid of SMS 2FA for non-Blue members — What you need to do (bleepingcomputer.com) …
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I wrote about the potential of scams around the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria last week: Earthquake = Scams – Smart Thinking Solutions Now the BBC has a report that looks at the scams that are happening: Scammers profit from Turkey-Syria earthquake – BBC News These people know no …
The attacks being warned about by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) do not impact huge numbers of us, as they are mainly targeted at journalists and politicians. But the NCSC are taking the opportunity to remind everyone that they need to have effective cyber security plans and tools to …
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The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …
I use The Guardian as one of my trusted “newspaper of record” sources here at Smart Thinking Solutions and as I have previously posted staff have been working from home and other systems compromised by a cyber attack that started last December: One of my trusted sources hit but a …
