My last week's readings were a bit peculiar. Most covered personal privacy and life stories connected to cybersecurity. So I decided to focus this post on three privacy-related takeaways from last week. The first is connected to a story from the previous week: the attack on FBI's email servers and the false warnings sent to …
What if you get an email (genuinely) from FBI telling you about an ongoing cyber attack? Would you believe it? I think I would! ...but shouldn't. Read on to see why and also to get some quick takeaways from last week. On Friday, an incident involving the FBI email servers surfaced to the public audience. …
There is not boring week! By far, the most interesting news of the week for me is the Facebook renaming into Meta. But some other interesting topics caught my eyes in the past week. SEO (or SEO Poisonings in this case) becomes a tactic leveraged to deliver malware. The good old VPN is still good, …
This week it was a lot about ransomware and for good reasons, I think. It is a priority now to defend against equally for governments, businesses, and individuals. Besides ransomware, I selected a few interesting articles among which one is about user rights and one about cyber... ignorance. Read on to get my takeaways from …
This was a particularly interesting week with a couple of events worth being reviewed (and learned from): the launch of the more security-oriented Windows 11, the Facebook outage and, a new ransomware threat for VMware ESXI. I also included a short read on planning for Incidents Response. Here is my take from last week: I'm …
Last week was a pretty busy one and had less time than usual to stay on top of industry developments. Though, I managed to sneak a few interesting reads on attacking two-factor authentication, a nasty vulnerability of Apple AirTag, and a major data breach missed for no less than 17 months. Here is my take …
Each Monday I'm publishing a list of quick thoughts and top readings on cybersecurity from the previous week. Here is my take from the week of September 20th: An excellent article on advanced phishing: Hackers Are Going ‘Deep-Sea Phishing,’ So What Can You Do About It? "Hackers are upping their game, using an approach I …
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