On Boxing Day here in the UK (26th December for anyone who doesn’t celebrate it) the NCSC (that’s the National Cyber Security Centre) blogged about staying smart with your Christmas gadgets. This included 5 tips which are always true for gadgets and our tech-filled lives, so I thought I’d go through them. Always accept automatic updates Or…
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Tip 2: Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)
On Boxing Day here in the UK (26th December for anyone who doesn’t celebrate it) the NCSC (that’s the National Cyber Security Centre) blogged about staying smart with your Christmas gadgets. This included 5 tips which are always true for gadgets and our tech-filled lives, so I thought I’d go through them. Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)…
Tip 1: Protect it with a strong password
On Boxing Day here in the UK (26th December for anyone who doesn’t celebrate it) the NCSC (that’s the National Cyber Security Centre) blogged about staying smart with your Christmas gadgets. This included 5 tips which are always true for gadgets and our tech-filled lives, so I thought I’d go through them. Protect it with a strong…
Ultimate Addons flaw
If you are using either the Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder or Ultimate Addons for Elementor plugins, then you really need to update them as soon as possible. Security researchers at MalCare have discovered a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in both of these populate premium WordPress plugins, and unfortunately they are quite trivial to exploit. The…
Passwords should not be stored in plain text
Let me repeat… Passwords should not be stored in plain text… ever! So Practical Pentest Labs have had a fun week on Twitter. If you’re not sure what I mean, check out this Tweet. They made this bold statement… We don’t allow users to pick passwords so that we don’t store any of your sensitive information.…
HSTS preloading (again)
It was recently pointed out to me that the HSTS preloading doesn’t work on my website, and upon further investigation, there were two reasons for that. Firstly; despite setting up HSTS preloading on my website when it was at https://www.rik.onl and writing a pretty detailed blog post about it, I neglected to re-do this when I moved…