A new malware strain is targeting Android devices, and is capable of complete account takeover. Branded Nexus, the malware is a banking app trojan and has been available to threat actors since the mid...
A few days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (24/02/22), thousands of secret files were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. The files were form a Russian company called NTC...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the design of the IEEE802.11 standard – This is the standard from which Wi-Fi is based. In a paper released on Monday, the researcher...
Continuing the mini-series of posts about online security, In this installment, I’ll discuss the use of HTMLv5 for tracking purposes. As always, before I explain how you can be tracked with this...
In my last post, I talked about the use of cookies by companies when they want to track our online browsing activities. Well, cookies are just one of a number of technologies used by companies to get ...
Reducing the number of tracking technologies employed by websites is one thing I’m quite passionate about. For me, the web has become too much of a commercial space with more and more people and...
Staying anonymous online is becoming a difficult thing to achieve, but to be honest, for the majority of people, it’s not really something we should be too worried about. There are some things h...
What’s on your network? Whilst I understand that not everyone is a computer geek, or has the time to manage their home network properly, I firmly believe that everyone should have a good grasp o...
In this post, I’ll take a look at how you can check to see what issues might be present in your IT setup. Nessus Nessus is a professional vulnerability scanner made by a company called Tenable w...
In this installment of my mini-series on protecting your online activity, I’m going to discuss VPNs. What is a VPN? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that allows you to create a se...