If you haven’t already, now is an excellent time for everyone to take the opportunity to have a full on, thorough digital clean-up. This is a painstaking task, but one that will save you enormous amounts of hassle for years to come. Firstly, dig out all of your old devices. Old USB sticks, hard drives,[…]
Our article this week will focus on a project created to help businesses and individuals alike unlock their devices after a ransomware attack. The project, named “No More Ransom!” is a collaboration between National High Tech Crime Unit of Netherlands’ police, the European Crime Centre, Kaspersky and McAfee, and is designed to provide a way[…]
Biostar 2 is a web-based access control and time/attendance management system that is used worldwide by a number of large organisations to secure and centrally manage access to commercial buildings via the use of biometrics (i.e. Fingerprint and Face Recognition). The recently discovered security flaw has unveiled a large store of unsecured biometric data, credentials[…]
Over the past couple of months, a newly created tool has been developed and used by malicious actors to exploit a recently discovered WhatsApp vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows the malicious actor to manipulate quotes and images WhatsApp to say whatever they desire and even attribute them to a completely different user. This[…]
Your digital footprint is becoming significantly more prevalent in recent years. With a combination of Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, forums and more, it is now easier than ever to build a portfolio of an individual. Your information is used to register for every online service imaginable. This information, while valuable, can be reasonably intrusive depending on[…]
Our article this week will cover the importance of a spam filter, and how to use this properly to defend against phishing emails. There are two main types of phishing approach – the first uses an email address that is untargeted but is sent to multiple companies to extract data, this type will generally have[…]
This week we’ll be taking a step back from the technical talk. While there are a whole host of exploits, vulnerabilities, threat-actors, techniques and more, it is always most important to solidify your foundation before you start building. Our article this week will focus on general IT health care, and how to ensure that your[…]