Cloud security has been big news again this week, with the online leaks of nude celebrity photos. We roused The Cyber Security Expert from deep contemplation of serious matters (arguing online about which would win in a fight - a Star Destroyer or the Enterprise D)...
Cyber security advice is often jargon laden. We dislike jargon, and try our best to use plain english and actual words instead of acronyms. Today we've diverted the Cyber Security Expert away from his usual intellectual Sunday evening pursuits (watching Firefly repeatedly on Netflix) to...
Following on from yesterdays post about Alia and fake LinkedIn profiles, I did some further digging (The Cyber Security Expert has little else to do on a Friday night), and found Adi: Adi is Vice President of ACI International, which is actually real though is a shoe...
Today I haven't been asked anything. Instead I'm going to ramble on about trust, and social media and what all that means for us in this modern era. Lets start at the beginning In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was tea. Whilst drinking my...
On Monday 7th April 2014 the world woke up to what is being described as one of the most significant software bugs ever. Heartbleed, as the bug has been called (or more prosaically CVE-2014-0160), is clearly a big deal. To find out exactly how big,...
The BBC today (7th March) is running with a story on criminals targeting public wifi. The report on BBC Breakfast left us a bit confused. We put the kettle on, wafted the scent of Yorkshire tea up the stairs and woke The Cyber Security Expert to...
The Cyber Security Expert is often asked if Tesco was hacked. Well, ok, not usually often, but certainly a lot in the last few days. Was Tesco hacked? From this BBC headline you'd certainly think so: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26171130 Firstly, you now know my thoughts on using the word 'attack' to...
The Cyber Security Expert is often asked, somewhat unsurprisingly as he insists on walking around in t-shirt and baseball cap both emblazoned with 'The Cyber Security Expert' , about cyber attacks, hacking and threats in general. What are they, how do they work, has my...
Recently the Cyber Security Expert has been asked a lot about a new and scary cyber threat, called Cryptolocker. Should you be worried? Should you smash your computers and resort to typewriters? Run screaming to the hills? Lets see what the expert thinks. So what is...
The Cyber Security Expert is often asked about denial of service, or DoS, attacks. After making some lame reference to the popular Microsoft operating system, and laughing at his own joke, an embarrassed silence follows which he then fills with the following helpful information. What is...