CyberSecure Specialist

You may not be able to disappear completely from the internet, but you can minimize your digital footprint with a few simple steps Have you ever searched for yourself on Google? It may sound odd, but it is actually a great way to discover a tiny part of what the web knows about us. And, most importantly, it is the only way we have to know if we need to ask Google to remove relevant…

Doxing can happen to anyone – here’s how you can reduce the odds that your personal information will be weaponized against you How harmful can it be to have your social media accounts set to public? Or to tag the restaurant where you’re having that delicious meal? Almost everyone does it! Let’s turn the questions around: Do you remember ever searching for someone you just met on social media to find out as much as…

As another hospital falls victim to ransomware, Tony weighs in on the much-debated issue of banning ransomware payouts A major hospital near Paris has been hit by a ransomware attack that crippled its computer and medical systems and forced it to send patients to other healthcare facilities. The criminals demand $10 million from the hospital for restoring access to its systems, which the facility refused to pay. In this week’s video, Tony wonders if the…

by Paul Ducklin Yesterday, we wrote about the waited-for-with-bated-breath OpenSSL update that attracted many column-kilometres of media attention last week. The OpenSSL team announced in advance, as it usually does, that a new version of its popular cryptographic library would soon be released. This notification stated that the update would patch against a security hole with a CRITICAL severity rating, the project’s highest. Unlike companies such as Apple, who deliberately announce forthcoming security patches simply…