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UK Covid19 Track & Trace App on Android – Update
The UK Government for England and Wales Coronavirus contact tracing app went live on 24 September 2020. I have been using this app since and monitoring its performance as well as comments from users on the Android Play Store. Permissions On the Google Play Store, the following are the permissions that need to be enabled to… Continue Reading →
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Newsletter – September 2020
September blogs September intelligence and threat report Here is a round up of the news that we saw and tweeted about on our Twitter account during September. It is not surprising that the number of ransomware attacks and data breaches seem to be increasing as we are also seeing a rise in malware attacks on… Continue Reading →
Detecting a Phish
A lot of malware attacks start with a simple Phishing email, or some other social engineering attack. Sometimes they are very believable. All it takes is for you to be distracted, taken in by the plausibility of the message or pushed into clicking a link due to the urgency of the communication to be breached… Continue Reading →
Printer Steganography
When you use a colour laser printer, or photocopier, the printer will often automatically add a number of microscopic yellow dots to the resulting printout that will normally be invisible to the naked eye. These are often 1/10 mm wide and the whole pattern of dots often only covers a few centimetres of space. These… Continue Reading →
UK Covid19 Contact Tracing Apps Go Live
This is an update to our earlier blog “New UK Coronavirus Test & Trace App in Trial“. On 12 September 2020 the UK Government for England and Wales announced that their Coronavirus contact tracing app will go live on 24 September 2020. The devolved government in Wales will also use the same app. The UK App… Continue Reading →
NSA Surveillance Ruled as Illegal
I don’t normally comment of breaking news stories, but this one is so ground-breaking and important I felt it had to be commented on. On 6th June 2013, Glenn Greenwald published an article in the Guardian newspaper that disclosed the NSA (National Security Agency in the US) had been gathering the telephone call records of… Continue Reading →
Newsletter – August 2020
Announcements We have added a new Guidance category on Zero Trust concepts (several blogs in preparation). This is a concept that goes beyond the use of VPN’s for secure access to corporate resources when working remotely or at home. The general idea is that that the organisation no longer assumes that users, systems or services… Continue Reading →
Purchasing Services Online – A Pocket Guide
How many times have you been browsing a service online that requires a subscription to continue viewing? I can name quite a few: Netflix Microsoft Office/365 Spotify Amazon Prime Google’s YouTube Premium. Online Services Most online services, like the above, will offer a trial period for free and then expect you to sign-up to a… Continue Reading →
Threat & Incident Lifecycle Management
It is a good investment to invest in a Threat & Incident Lifecycle Management Procedure since cyber threats show no sign of slowing down. This post is focused on what organisations can do to detect cyber threats, but this will also be useful for individuals and consumers. What is Threat & Incident Lifecycle Management? The… Continue Reading →
New UK Coronavirus Test & Trace App in Trial
On the 13 August 2020 the UK government released a revised Contact Tracing app to be trailed on the Isle of White, the London Borough of Newham and NHS volunteer responders. In addition to the Contact Tracing function it also has other features including: An alert system that informs users of the coronavirus risk level… Continue Reading →
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