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A selection of daily hints and tips from "Notes" in September. (opens the original)
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Every day I post at least one cyber security tip as a “Note”. These are short, easy to understand, quick tips or reminders.But unless you use the Substack App, or webpage, you would never see these tips, as “Notes” don’t get emailed out, only “Posts” / “Articles” are emailed out. Here are a eight of these short tips from earlier on this month:If they can snatch your phone out of your hands while unlocked, your smartphone is everything a hacker or cyber criminal needs to steal your whole online l
How to stop scammers sending Emails pretending to be you, and appearing to come from your own email domain (opens the original)
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Sending an email that says it’s from `you@your-email-domain’ can be very easy for a criminal to do if your domain isn’t set up to stop it.Think of email like a letter. Anyone can write “From: His majesty the King” on the envelope. Royal Mail doesn’t check. They just deliver it.Email works the same way by default. There’s nothing stopping a scammer from typing your email address into the “From” field and firing off a fake invoice to a client of yours, or a fake “urgent bank transfer needed” messa
The backup you've never tested isn't a backup, it's a hope (opens the original)
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A backup you've never tested isn't a backup, it's a hope. A lot of individuals and small businesses assume that because a backup job runs every night without an error message, everything would be fine in a real emergency. Too often, that assumption only gets tested during an actual crisis, when it's already too late to fix what's wrong.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!55EP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
Passkeys explained: The end of typing passwords (opens the original)
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For as long as most of us have used computers, logging in has meant the same basic idea. You identify your account with a username, then type a secret word, to prove who you are.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
Microsoft Edge keeps all saved passwords unencrypted in memory whenever it's open (opens the original)
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If you save passwords in Microsoft Edge, there’s a security risk you should know about. According to a new disclosure, whenever you open Edge, the browser immediately loads all saved passwords into memory in readable form (not just the password for the website you’re logging into). That means credentials for every account saved in Edge could be exposed if malware, a compromised admin account, or an attacker gains access to your device or user session.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
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