Weekly Cyber Security News 23/04/2021

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. I admit this is frivolous, and low risk, but come on…. The increasing completely pointless devices out there that insist on Internet connection when you are highly unlikely going to be out of sight of said device is bonkers… No…

• We need to talk about criminal adversaries who want you to eat undercooked onion rings

Talking of bonkers…. Or bankers…. See what I did there? This is a new level of crazy ideas…

• Bank of England ponders minting “Britcoin” to sit alongside the Pound

Seeing we are on a theme of crazy let’s now extend that to crazy and confused. Three friends this week had hacked Facebook accounts. Just switch on MFA even if its the dumb and insecure SMS, it is still better than using dumb passwords that everyone seems to want to keep.

• Brits Still Confused by Multi-Factor Authentication