For when you have time, here are two articles from Microsoft looking at cyberweapons: Continuing the fight against private sector cyberweapons – Microsoft On the Issues Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits – Microsoft Security Blog The view from the US Government Pegasus spyware: Just ‘tip of …
If a software attack will not work – get out the wire cutters
This is not something that most of us will have to defend against – but it reads like a classic 1960’s spy story. The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris | WIRED UK Do you want another cyber security story that reads like a 1960’s spy story – …
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1000 posts and counting
This is the 1000th news feed post here at Smart Thinking, so I was told by Marketing I needed to do something special. I would have simply gone on reporting the stories of the day and giving out advice, making sure you are all provided with a range of cyber …
Email scams – how hard is it to spot them?
This was going to be a “weekend read” but I thought it was important enough to be part of the main news feed. For an email phishing scam to work it has to, in some way, make you trust it. This exploitation of your trust is called social engineering and …
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Transparency
Here is an interesting article from Kent Walker, President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet, looking at how Google reached it’s current stance on sharing cybersecurity information. Transparency in the Shadowy World of Cyberattacks (blog.google)
