API Security Done Right: COVID-19 Exposure Notification System Minimizes Data Exposure

Security Professionals have a reputation for being paranoid and pointing out security or privacy flaws in just about everything. When the Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Project was first launched, many a security pro said, with great skepticism, “y… Continue reading API Security Done Right: COVID-19 Exposure Notification System Minimizes Data Exposure

Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

  
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021.

How not to disclosure a Hack
UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handli… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Securing Vaccine Passport Applications

The single most valuable document today is a COVID-19 vaccination card. That golden ticket is the passport to a ‘normal’ life. If you are lucky enough to have one of those cards, however, you know already how awkward they are to carry arou… Continue reading Securing Vaccine Passport Applications

Senator hammers Facebook, Instagram over COVID-19 misinformation

One day after a House panel grilled social media executives about misinformation on their platforms, a top senator blasted Facebook for its “continued amplification of harmful” posts about COVID-19, especially via Facebook-owned Instagram. Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, saying the company needed to do more to eradicate misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine than promising action. “Facebook’s enforcement of its own policies is consistently and demonstrably insufficient, a trend we have seen in other areas where Facebook has pledged to address misuse of its products or instances of its products amplifying harmful content,” Warner said in the letter. Warner juxtaposed Facebook’s February update of its policies on medical misinformation with the fact that on the day it announced them, some of the top search results for “COVID vaccine” on Instagram lead to anti-vaccine accounts. In particular, Warner said he was disturbed by a […]

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A Simple but Effective High-Flow Oxygen Concentrator from Hardware Store Parts

To say that a lot has happened in the year since the COVID-19 pandemic started is an understatement of epic proportions, so much so that it may be hard to …read more Continue reading A Simple but Effective High-Flow Oxygen Concentrator from Hardware Store Parts

Reducing Human Error Security Threats with a Remote Workforce

Article by Beau Peters

For better or worse, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work and our corresponding cybersecurity needs. Now, millions of us across the world are adapting to remote work. And this requires securing our networks for the new … Continue reading Reducing Human Error Security Threats with a Remote Workforce

DDoS attacks and 5G: everything you need to know

Cybersecurity geeks may already know this historical tidbit… The first DDoS attack occurred back in 1999, when a computer at the University of Minnesota suddenly came under attack from a network of 114 other computers infected with a malicious script c… Continue reading DDoS attacks and 5G: everything you need to know