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.
Category: General
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…
- Bitcoin flaw could have allowed dreaded 51% takeover September 21, 2018The scenario was always hypothetical but the fact such a thing was even possible until this week has left some in the Bitcoin community feeling alarmed.
- Warning issued as Netflix subscribers hit by phishing attack September 21, 2018Netflix phishing scammers are at it again, sending emails that try to steal sensitive details from subscribers.
- Man who shared Deadpool movie on Facebook faces 6 months in jail September 20, 2018US government recommended six months behind bars. That’s one month for every million people that viewed a part of the pirated movie, apparently.
- US military given the power to hack back/defend forward September 20, 2018The new preventative cybersecurity powers include potentially acting against countries considered friendly toward the US - a risky move, some say.
- FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around September 20, 2018The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered.
- Western Digital goes quiet on unpatched MyCloud flaw September 20, 2018Western Digital has failed to patch a serious security vulnerability in its MyCloud NAS drives that it was told about more than a year ago, researchers have alleged.
- URL spoofing – what it is and what to do about it [VIDEO] September 19, 2018What happens if your browser doesn't tell you the truth about the identity of the website you're looking at?
- iOS 12 is here: these are the security features you need to know about September 19, 2018One year to the day after iOS 11 appeared, Apple yesterday released its replacement, iOS 12.
- Here we Mongo again! Millions of records exposed by insecure database September 19, 2018Another day, another poorly configured MongoDB database.
- Years on, third party apps still exposing Grindr users’ locations September 19, 2018A third party app can use Grindr’s distance data to pinpoint a users location down to a room within a house.
- 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
- AV18-148: Google Releases Security Update for Chrome September 12, 2018
- AV18-147: Adobe Security Bulletins September 12, 2018
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