Getting an email from The Invisible Man — We Can’t Even Get The Basics Right!

With all this talk about advanced ransomware threats and patching systems, it is easy to forget about the basic things. When a spamming email gets through a filtering system by just converting text strings to Base-64, you really must worry if we are forgetting about the basics of computer security.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

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