Counter Ransomware Initiative Guidance Recommendations
Counter Ransomware Initiative has published new guidelines on dealing with ransomware payments to cyber criminals. More information on the guidance can be found at this link.
Authy 33 million phone number leak
Another day, another data leak. It is really frustrating when companies that are working in or providing products for IT security result in data breaches or security compromises. This has the impact of companies depending on Authy now needing to be aware of another potential attack vector. In addition, you can never be sure that … Read more
Infosecurity Europe 2024
This week Infosecurity Europe 2024 was held in Excel in east London from 4th to the 6th of June. Many of the leading vendors in cyber security were at this events with stalls, providing demonstrations and arranging future follow ups. There were also a number of presentations and conferences going in to various aspects of … Read more
Is AI model collapse inevitable?
Model collapse, according to Wikipedia refers to refers to “the gradual degradation in the output of a generative artificial intelligence model trained on synthetic data, meaning the outputs of another model (including prior versions of itself)”. It is an interesting and realistic concept. Generating output based on a model gives the ability to generate near … Read more
ChatGPT will be ‘Laughably Bad’ in 12 months
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap has said that ChatGPT will be ‘Laugably Bad’ in 12 months time, highlighting the speed at which the technology is progressing. He made this comment at the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference. However I can’t help but think that if LLMs are the focus of this ‘progress’, we are unlikely … Read more
The Cybersecurity Manager’s Guide – Book review
This book is almost completely focused on how to deal with the people and the culture with in an organisation in your role as a security manager. That is not meant as a complaint. Getting done for security within an organization depends heavily on how other people and departments cooporate with you. From a techie … Read more
Cannot log in to Office apps after user profile name change
Moved from my old site randomtecharticles.com So we had to change the name of a user and afterward when we tried to get the user logged in to Outlook, we had a error saying “Your computer’s Trusted Platform Module has malfunctioned. if this persist, contact your system administrator with the error code 80090034.” We tried to add … Read more
What is Azure Migrate?
This is a service set up to simplify the migration of on-premise servers and infrastructure on to the Azure cloud. This provides a way for companies to get an idea of the cost and the performance of the current infrastructure on the cloud. It has three steps: I am currently rolling this out to get … Read more
Welcome
This blog will focus mostly on cyber security and artificial intelligence related posts. However I will include a few posts from my earlier randomtecharticles.com blog in order to save the information, as I have had quite few visits for them. Randomtecharticles.com will be forwarding here going forward.