Tag: Cybersecurity
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Meta Hacks: A Cautionary Tale
If you receive a text like this one, it appears to be (and is) a legitimate one from Meta. However, you are very likely being hacked! I get contacted on a regular basis about hacked accounts and how to recover them. This particular case had me stumped for a while; ingenious hackers were able to re-gain access…
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BLOKK: Stop Tracking Me
Did you know that nearly all of your apps are leaking data? At Revoke, we recently launched a new app: BLOKK. Without BLOKK, your phone is leaking data and you have no visibility or control over what is happening! Apple claims to be privacy-centric… Google makes no such claims… many app developers do not inform…
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Data Protection Day 2022 – Data Dystopia is here already!
Happy Data Protection Day 2022! I was invited by Santander Work Café to give a talk today (thank you for the invitation!) on Data Protection Day. My talk was initially inspired by two main events; 1. A recent hack and compromise of an account (twice!) despite having 2FA on (also known as two factor, two-step or multi-factor authentication).…
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Online Privacy in a Post-COVID World
I recently gave a talk to the PrivSec Global virtual conference about online privacy after Covid. The coronavirus pandemic has had seismic effects across society and business as a whole and the challenges it has brought to data protection are huge. The speed of change required and the unpredictable nature of pandemics had made it…
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Securing your Facebook Business Pages
Protect your Facebook personal and Business pages! Simple steps to secure your accounts and dramatically mitigate the risk of being hacked.
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Data Protection: Risks, Rights & Solutions
I just gave a talk during Data Protection Week here in Jersey as part of our regulator, the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner’s series of events. Here is a selection of the slides I used; You do have rights and you should exercise them!