The Tip Everything from personal information, personal photos, work correspondence, to your banking information and social media activity is valuable. If it’s valuable to you, it’s valuable to cybercriminals. In fact, some of it is valuable to cybercriminals without you…
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Summer is Over
The Tip Well, it was a nice summer break from blogging Cybersecurity, but the new school year is well underway and it’s time to start thinking Cybersecurity again. This week is not so much a tip as it is a greeting and…
Summer Vacation
Just a quick note to let you know that the Cybersecurity blog will be taking a summer break. We hope to be publishing again sometime in the fall of 2018.
The Culture of Security
This week’s topic is The Culture of Security The Tip Our community has its own culture. We have a standardized method of communication. We have dress codes. We have expectations, rules, and a collective personality that exists in the university.…
The 10 Tenets of OpSec
From Beazley Breach Response Services and Lodestone Security Operations Security, or OpSec, is the mindset of using secure practices. Practicing OpSec helps keep us safe from ne’er-do-wells. Secure your space Don’t leave sensitive documents out when away from your workspace. Lock…
Passwords vs Passphrases
Welcome to the first in what we hope to make a weekly series of Cybersecurity tips. This week’s topic is Passwords and Passphrases. The condensed version is, “passwords are bad, passphrases are better”. This is a ‘b@dPas3Word!’. ‘This is a…
World Backup Day – March 31st
World Backup Day is a global initiative to remind and teach people to properly and safely backup their files. At Nipissing University, we have our shared and home directories backed up daily to keep all our hard work safe. For…
- YouTube is reading text in users’ videos December 14, 2018Google keeps tabs on much of your activity. Now, it turns out that its YouTube service is also reading what’s in your videos too.
- Facebook has filed patents to predict our future locations December 14, 2018One such use would be to pre-stuff our devices with ads and other content before we wander into a Wi-Fi dead zone.
- Kanye West tops the charts for year’s worst password pratfall December 14, 2018Kanye, please keep your "all zeroes! all the time!" password away from the media. And Nutella? No, "Nutella" is NOT a good password.
- Update now! WordPress 5.0.1 release fixes seven flaws December 14, 2018Don't delay, update your Wordpress website today.
- Border agents are copying travelers’ data, leaving it on USB drives December 13, 2018It's just one of many SOP SNAFUs of a pilot program for advanced searches of travelers' devices that doesn't even have performance metrics.
- Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false December 13, 2018Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tempered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users.
- WordPress worms, Android fraud and Flash fails [PODCAST] December 13, 2018Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!
- Update now! Microsoft and Adobe’s December 2018 Patch Tuesday is here December 13, 2018If you find patching security flaws strangely satisfying, you’re in luck - Microsoft’s and Adobe’s December Patch Tuesdays have arrived with plenty for the dedicated updater to get stuck into.
- Samsung fixes flaws that could have let attackers hijack your account December 12, 2018Flaws in the mobile site were leaving users vulnerable to attackers who could have reset their user passwords and hijacked their accounts.
- Google+ to power down early after second security hole found December 12, 2018Google has disclosed the second security hole in its Google+ social network in three months.
- AV18-158: Cisco Security Updates September 27, 2018
- AV18-157: Apple Security Updates September 25, 2018
- AV18-156: Cisco Security Advisory September 21, 2018
- AV18-155: Google Chrome Security Update September 21, 2018
- AV18-154: ICS Security Advisory for BIND September 21, 2018
- AV18-153: Adobe Security Bulletins September 20, 2018
- AV18-152: Cisco Security Updates September 20, 2018
- AV18-151: NUUO NVRMini2 Security Update September 18, 2018
- AV18-150: Apple Security Updates September 18, 2018
- AV18-149: Microsoft Security Updates September 12, 2018
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