In the UK there is a government initiative to have smart electricity and gas supply meters fitted to all homes by the end of 2020. At this point this is not mandatory and you can decline. However, a trick the energy companies are employing (as was recently brought o my attention by my energy supplier,... Continue Reading →
We all like our gadgets, whether they have some form of smart technology in them or not. Wearable technology is also very popular. What is wearable technology? Wearable technology is simply a technology, or device, that you can attach to your body. This can be: Smart Watches, including the non-smart kindFitness TrackersGPS TrackersEar buds/headphones particularly... Continue Reading →
It's amazing what you find on Twitter. Shortly after posting my blog on how Google indexes all of your public tweets, I came across a tweet where someone had applied for a job and the company performed an audit on his tweets. They delivered a 300+ page PDF of all his tweets including a certain... Continue Reading →
HEALTH WARNING … This is not a subject I recommend to novices and the following is provided to explain what the TOR network is and the implications of using it. It is not a recommendation to use this network. What is the TOR Network? TOR stands for 'The Onion Router' and was setup by the... Continue Reading →
Every year on the 28th January we 'celebrate' World Data Protection Day (also known also in the US as Data Privacy Day). The purpose of this day is to promote and raise awareness of online privacy and protection of personal data. There is a Wikipedia article on this if you want to read more. In... Continue Reading →
I was recently looking over the Twitter help pages for something and came across one relating to "Help with Google search visibility". Cutting a long story short, due to the high ranking of Twitter with Google, all public pages on Twitter are indexed on a regular basis by the Google search engine. This includes all... Continue Reading →
What with the current news around the events in Iran, the security level has been raised across most of the western world. With the heightened security levels, we can also expect cyber attacks from nation state actors based in Iran and the middle east on western infrastructure. This blog has been in my backlog for... Continue Reading →
When we talk about malware, and their related command and control systems (the services/websites that deliver the components of the malware), we often state they are hosted on the dark web. It occurred to me that a lot of people don't really know about the different layers to the Internet and part of the message... Continue Reading →
I have just listened to a podcast on the BBC Sounds service in which Fiona Hill discusses the issue of Fake Science and how this is being used to distort actual scientific fact to further political, social and religious extremist viewpoints. It appears that extremist organizations, as well as political/nation state actors are cherry picking... Continue Reading →
What a difference 365 days makes. 2019 has been an eventful year for cyber security professionals with a number of new threats emerging as well as an escalation in ransomware and level of data breaches as well as all the normal threat vectors. IoT has also featured heavily in the cyber security landscape. But first... Continue Reading →
On the 30th December 2018 we published our inaugural post on this site. For those who weren't following us at this point, this was a A Review of Cyber Security in 2018. We will be publishing a similar review just before New Year 2019 as a means to re-enforce the lessons learnt from the failings in... Continue Reading →
As I have blogged on two previous occasions, support for Windows 7 ends on 14th January 2020. This means: All patching of security flaws ends and you will not receive any further patches from 14th January 2020 being the last patch Tuesday that will include widely available Windows 7 patchesMicrosoft Security Essentials also retires on... Continue Reading →
