Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is a follow-on article to last week’s article Let’s Talk About Your VPN. You should read that article first, to save me having to explain what a VPN is and why I am talking about them now. VPN Issues I spent last week talking up the cyber security advantages of …
I am about to head off on holiday so now is a good time to rerun a two part series I wrote last year looking at VPNs and how they can defend your privacy whilst away on holiday using public WiFi points. A VPN – your own private internet If …
On Monday we ran an article highlighting the importance of security updates and patches on VPN software, especially when those fixes apply to zero-day vulnerabilities. Quick Definition The zero-day vulnerability is the gap between a cyber security flaw being discovered and the patch to fix it being applied to your …
Among the patches Microsoft will issue tomorrow, there are sure to be fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities – these are probably the most important as threat actors may already be exploiting them. What is the zero-day threat? You can find out the details here: Are zero-day vulnerabilities exploited? Yes, and the …
Today I was going to talk about about the importance of monitoring your information storage and user accounts, but Mr Putin’s government changed my mind, as they have compelled Apple to remove VPN apps from the Russian App Store. (Gatlan, 2024) What is a VPN? It stands for Virtual Private …
