Posts by Liam
#WeekendWisdom 004 Firewall
Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 4. This week we are going to talk about what a firewall is.
Read More#WeekendWisdom 003 Updates
Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 3. This week we are going to talk about Updates.
Read More#WeekendWisdom 002 Anti-Virus Software
Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 2. This week we are going to talk about Anti-Virus software.
Read More#WeekendWisdom 001 Inventory
Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 1. This will be a new weekly series of short one to two minute videos where I will be providing some advice on a particular Cyber Security topic.
Read MoreRight To Be Informed
This page lists all of the various categories of personal data that L2 Cyber Security Solutions process and provides a downloadable PDF containing the required right to be informed information.
Read MoreFirst Annual Report from the DPC
The first annual report from the Data Protection Commission, under the auspices of the GDPR has just been released.
Read MoreNot GDPR Compliant – Really?
A colleague at another company forwarded me an email he’d received knowing that I’d get a kick out of it. It claimed to be from the UK GDPR Compliance Directory and that his company was not GDPR compliant. Of course no such directory exists and this was nothing but a ruse.
Read MoreWhatsapp Authentication Sucks
Whatsapp Authentication sucks. It sucks really badly. I’d never thought about it before, but then I saw this tweet yesterday. A lady got a new phone number and when she set up Whatsapp, she had a load of messages on there from the previous owner of the number.
Read MoreLuas Ransomware Incident – Offline a while now
How did you hear about the Luas Ransomware incident? Was it on the news? Online? Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Or did you happen to visit the website to check some fare information and get confronted by a very basic ransom demand.
Read MoreReview of my 2018 predictions.
I continue not to see many people who make predictions for the coming year actually come back to review what they predicted. As I showed last year, I’m not one of those, so here is my review. I’ve included the original text below in blue, but the full article for my 2018 predictions is here.
Read MorePaying Ransomware may break the law
Some businesses that are affected by a Ransomware incident, make a decision to pay the criminals in order to recover their data. This is usually because they believe it is more expensive to go through the recovery process. If they have poor or non-existent backups, then that may very well be the case, so they…
Read MoreDash cam – Machina Non Grata.
A dash cam is a popular Christmas present or indeed a present at any time of year. I got one earlier this year and have been having it merrily record the road ahead of my car ever since. I was doing this with the belief that the household exemption covered such recording. This is the…
Read MoreHoax Bomb Extortion Emails Are Latest Scam
In the last couple of days there are reports of hoax bomb threats being sent by e-mail. They’ve been particularly prevalent in the USA, but there is nothing to stop them spreading. They’ve targeted schools, government facilities and some businesses.
Read MoreSextortion Scam Volume 3
Remember the original Sextortion scam back in July? The one where they used an old password to make it look like the e-mail was plausible. This then evolved in August to add the use of partial mobile numbers. Well, it’s BAAAACKK!!!
Read MoreData Breaches Everywhere
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … has come early for the evil doers. There just seems to be a relentless tale of data breach after data breach in recent weeks and it has been really bad in the last week.
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