Cyber security is the act of having a safeguard or countermeasures in order to mitigate a potential risk. When I talk to clients who are looking at improving their security posture I often remind them that they need to strike a balance between...
Have I Been Pawned is a service whereby typing your email address you can check whether that same email appeared in a leaked or comprised database. The UK and the Australian governments are now using the service to keep an eye on their own domains...
The Meltdown and Spectre are serious vulnerabilities and have wide reaching impact. They affect nearly every computer and device running current processor. Big vendors are affected including Microsoft, Apple MacOS, Google Android, ChromeOS as...
Motherboard put up a rather good digital security guide. It will be regularly updated and it is portable in the form of pdf.
Estonia is a progressive country when it comes to the use of technology. It is an early adopter of innovative technology to make their population digital citizens. As with anything new there are challenges to overcome and for Estonia there is one...
A popular software developed by a subsidiary of Avast were infiltrated. An unknown entity maliciously hid malware in the form of backdoor in Piriform CCleaner, a widely used cleaning utility. Piriform was acquired by Avast back in July 2017. This is...
Driving back home, I asked myself, where will ransomware attacks takes us next? I then read this article on Ars Technica. It is chilling but not far fetched to imagine a whole national grid being taken hostage. In the security community we...
This is a good piece on process hollowing and atom bombing. If you ignore the marketing part of course.
What appears to be an a major IT related incident has forced British Airways to cancel all flights from Britain’s two biggest airports Heathrow and Gatwick. At this time the company stated this is not related to Cyber security. ...
A look into why we choose the password we choose and what this reveals about us. A lot than you might think. If you ignore password managers – which combat linking the password to the individual by randomizing it, a password is more than...
