Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Collecting (stealing) credentials is a favourite pastime of threat actors – either to break into accounts directly or to add them to their credential stuffing attacks (looking for those people who reuse passwords) or just to sell on the dark web! Here they are doing it to users of the …
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The issue of a trusted insider betraying a trust either maliciously or for commercial gain is a problem we often discussed at university and never really came up with an answer. You need trusted people for any business to operate – you should use the “principle of least privilege” to …
When I use a VPN, I do it because I want my communications across the internet to be private. Apple iOS VPN is not private enough: Two years on, Apple iOS VPNs still leak IP addresses • The Register I always use a VPN when I suspect the internet connection …
In a week where I can quote Stan Lee, in the context of cyber security, here is one of the weirdest technology stories we have featured in our “Because It’s Friday” segment. Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops • The Register The threat has a CVE listing …
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Here is another car security story, but this time it appears it is laziness or carelessness: Software dev cracks Hyundai encryption with Google search • The Register
