As computing power increases and the ability of cloud platforms and software to create realistic deepfake impersonations of people improves, so does the increased use of such techniques by threat actors – of course. Here are a couple of articles looking at the technology and the threat: Seeing is disbelieving: …
Were you a lab rat?
Here is an interesting article about privacy, looking at how LinkedIn (Microsoft) loosely interpreted its privacy policies so it could experiment on twenty million users: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users | Ars Technica
Cold War spying is a long way from today’s cyber-espionage weapons but they both successfully stole information – #BeCyberSmart
This article comes via Bruce Schneier, and fits nicely into the Weekend Project – it is about security and has some connections to the posts we run here at Smart Thinking. Both Clive and I have attended Bruce Schneier speaking events, and through Clive’s links with Edinburgh Napier University have …
What is hell? – #BeCyberSmart
Weekends here at Smart Thinking is when we run background and more in depth, longer reads about cyber security and technology. So, we are starting our Cyber Security Awareness month – an event which will be all over social media – with an article about social media. As Clive often …
Because It’s Friday – Happy International Coffee Day
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy International Coffee Day, for tomorrow. It’s a real thing, I have not dreamed it: International Coffee Day – Wikipedia Here is why coffee always generates good ideas and the solution to many an IT or cyber security job: Wally’s Coffee …
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