A Chinese team has just succeeded in the satellite transmission of a “secret” encryption key between two ground situations located roughly 700 miles apart. So why, you may ask, is this big news?It’s down to a concept physicists call quantum entanglement.
For an overview of the current cybersecurity landscape, the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is always worth reading. The 2020 version has just been released and is available here. 2020 DBIR is based on information from across the
Are your login details out in the wild? Have you opened an account on a website that’s probably been hacked? Mozilla wants to let you know. The latest version of Firefox includes a useful batch of new features designed to beef up password management and
It’s accessible, easy to use - and the free version gives you 40-minute group meetings with up to 100 people. So what’s not to like about Zoom?Between December and March, Zoom’s daily meeting participants surged from 10 million to 200 million. The lockdown was
As steps to counter the coronavirus outbreak take effect, millions of workers across the globe have been sent home with their laptops for the first time. If you’re one of them, or if you’ve recently been tasked with the job of setting up remote users from
Ever get the feeling that you are being tracked by online brands, even though you diligently disable cookies on the sites you visit? So-called fingerprinting enables companies to track your browsing habits in a way that bypasses standard cookie opt-ins. Now
New research from Sophos suggests that two thirds of organisations were hit by a cyberattack last year. The report lists the three biggest reasons why organisations are still struggling to reduce their risk:Attacks are coming in from multiple
If you haven’t been sold on Windows 10, you’re not alone. To this day, Windows 7 remains the 2nd most popular Windows desktop operating system, with almost 34 percent of computer users using it globally. Despite mainstream support for Windows 7 ending in
When it comes to password hygiene, many of us are still ignoring the basics.Password management specialist, SplashData has released its eighth ‘Worst Passwords of the Year’ list: a roundup of the most commonly used and easily guessable passwords. The list is
The value of encryption is hard to overestimate. When it works, it means that even if your data is accessed without authorisation, it cannot be read (and by extension, cannot be exploited) by the attacker; something that makes encryption an essential layer of
Antivirus (AV) is a commonly relied upon security control. But it’s worth remembering that there’s nothing inherently “hack-proof” about this type of software. After all, no program (AV included) is immune to outside attack!That said, if you can run your
It’s versatile, it works on a minimum of code - and it’s also relatively easy to put to work: three factors which go a long way in explaining why Python is currently being touted as the “world’s most popular coding language”.Black hat hackers are drawn to
We’ve been reminded that when it comes to malware delivery, threat actors tend to prefer tried and tested methods.A recent roundup from Cofense Intelligence included a breakdown of malware loaders analysed by volume for the month of August 2018. It found that
A business merger or restructure can leave existing Internet domains suddenly surplus to requirements. So what’s the harm in simply allowing them to expire? Recent research highlights the perils of letting old domains slip out of your control…Domain registry