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 Cyber Security Expert is always recommending people use two factor authentication for online services. It is a good idea, but what in fact is two factor authentication. After explaining about the clocks changing, British Summer Time, and coaxing him to a desk, we asked...
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...
In a recent post on the truth about cyber attacks (we have a special dispensation to use that phrase). The Cyber Security Expert pointed out that people are behind hacking. So who are these people, and what is a threat actor anyway? We dragged the Cyber Security...
Its rare for Apple to release a dedicated security patch, but they have just done so. Reporting on the internet suggest it is vitally important you pay attention. We poked The Cyber Security Expert into wakefulness on a Sunday to see what he thinks. Whats the...
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...