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…
- Google Chromecast and Home Speaker can leak location data to websites June 20, 2018Two Google products have a design weakness that could reveal their users' locations.
- Who owns your iPhone? [VIDEO] June 20, 2018Who should get the final say over what you're allowed to do with digital devices you've bought outright with your own after-tax income?
- Alleged Vault 7 leaker was busted because of basic security blunders June 20, 2018The FBI says that Schulte's poor opsec was his undoing.
- The girls who used WhatsApp to learn under the noses of IS June 20, 2018Weakening encryption so it's easier to catch terrorists also means weakening it so it's easier to catch girls who dare to get an education.
- Domain transfer #FAIL – man gets 20 years for gunpoint domain hijack June 19, 2018The owner of doitforstate.com was shot in the leg before shooting his assailant in the chest.
- How a Nigerian Prince scam victim got his money back after 10 years June 19, 2018The Nigerian prince never showed up but the victim's $110,000 did, eventually.
- Researchers claim Chrome bug bounty paid to the wrong people June 19, 2018Yubico has been drawn into a rare public spat over how the discovery of a security flaw affecting it products was credited.
- Firefox fixes critical buffer overflow June 18, 2018Version 60.0.2 of the resurgent Firefox browser fixes a critical security flaw in its SVG rendering code.
- Apple code signing flaw could have made Mac malware look legit June 18, 2018For years it was possible to fool some security software into thinking malicious code had been digitally signed by Apple.
- The “world’s worst” smart padlock – it’s EVEN WORSE than we thought June 18, 2018Remember last week's $99 IoT padlock that anyone could unlock in 2 seconds? Turns out you don't even need that long!
- AV18-102: Microsoft Security Update – Out-of-Band June 19, 2018
- AV18-101: Apple Security Updates June 14, 2018
- AV18-100: Intel Releases Security Advisory for Microprocessors June 14, 2018
- AV18-099: Google Releases Security Update for Chrome June 13, 2018
- AV18-098: Moodle Security Advisory June 13, 2018
- AV18-097: Fortinet Security Advisory June 12, 2018
- IN18-003: Government of Canada Announces New National Cyber Security Strategy and the Creation of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security June 12, 2018
- AV18-096: VMware Security Advisory June 12, 2018
- AV18-095: Microsoft Security Updates June 12, 2018
- AV18-094: Android Security Bulletin June 12, 2018
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