There were two an interesting stories this week about privacy. The first was about how much our of our personal data is being sold and how that impacts on our privacy, so we can see adverts targeted at us.
Just how much and often is your data shared? UPDATED 19 May 2022 – Smart Thinking Solutions
There is a weekend read coming out, first thing, on Saturday explaining how to protect your privacy on your smart phone.
The second was how legitimate websites are using “keylogger malware” type software to capture information about you when you have a reasonable right not to expect it.
Your expectations of privacy – Smart Thinking Solutions
A joint cyber security advisory from the National Cyber Security Centre, for the UK, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the cyber security agencies of Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, list the ten most “routinely exploited weak security controls, poor configurations, and bad practices that allow malicious actors to compromise networks”. The lack of use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) was top of that list. You must use MFA where ever you can.
CISA joint advisory on access control. Are you still missing MFA? – Smart Thinking Solutions
Did you update your Apple device this week?
Time to patch everything Apple – UPDATED 18 May 2022 – Smart Thinking Solutions
Then there was this story from Saturday:
Of course the Russia Ukraine conflict has not gone away – here is my updated advice post. Have you read it and taken the actions advised?
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
This is a weekly round-up of the articles from Smart Thinking Solutions, our specialist cybersecurity, governance and compliance web site.
The articles are mostly quick reads to give you an overview of the cybersecurity threat landscape facing businesses today, with links to the sources. Many of the posts have action points or top tips to help you navigate these threats to your organisations.
Sometimes they are just there to make you smile!
