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By Reuters | May 10th 2021
Cities embracing technology to improve urban life risk falling prey to hackers, Britain s cyber security agency warned on Friday, urging local authorities to ensure smart cities are armed with digital defences.
Criminals and foreign governments can target technologies deployed to improve city services such as sensors and internet-connected devices to steal sensitive data and cause disruption, said Britain s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). New digital technology is going to improve our lives and help protect the environment, but it is essential we take steps now to make connected places more resilient to cyber attacks, Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman said in a statement.
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(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cities embracing technology to improve urban life risk falling prey to hackers, Britain’s cyber security agency warned on Friday, urging local authorities to ensure smart cities are armed with digital defences.
Criminals and foreign governments can target technologies deployed to improve city services such as sensors and internet-connected devices to steal sensitive data and cause disruption, said Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
“New digital technology is going to improve our lives and help protect the environment, but it is essential we take steps now to make connected places more resilient to cyber attacks,” Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman said in a statement.
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Death to Fluffy : Please Stop With the Pet Name Passwords
May 5, 2021
euroinfosec) • April 9, 2021
Loving your pet and creating tough-to-crack passwords should remain two distinctly separate activities. Using your pet’s name as a password could make you an easy target for callous cybercriminals.
An independent survey conducted for the NCSC - which is the public-facing arm of intelligence agency GCHQ - found that many individuals appear to favor simple passwords that they can remember. Hence, respondents say they often base passwords on:
Pet names - 15%;
Favorite sports team - 6%;
Using the word password - 6%.
The NCSC is using National Pet Day, which is Sunday, as the occasion to remind people to practice good password hygiene. But it s also offering a reminder to businesses to help equip their employees to always use strong, unique passwords across every site and service.
Titbit for domestic consumption looks darn silly from abroad
Gareth Corfield Tue 9 Mar 2021 // 19:02 UTC Share
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Opinion The US government might have subtly signalled that it likely won t hack Russia this month – by telling credulous journalists it has a clandestine plan to, er, launch an attack against its rival before April.
The counterintuitive move came over the weekend when
The New York Times published a story setting out how over the next three weeks… a series of clandestine operations will take place across Russian networks with the intention of secretly getting the attention of Vladimir Putin and his intelligence services.