Rise and Fall of Bitcoin

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

With the popularity and value of crypto currencies growing, so do the security and anonymity concerns.

As with everyone we all regret not doing something, be it not buying shares in Apple or not buying 100 LTC (Litecoins) two years ago. Bitcoin and newer crypto currencies were created as a non-capitalist, de-centralised and likely anti-government establishment alternative to the Pound, Euro or Dollar which is extremely widely accepted and has regulators. The funny thing is Bitcoin is slowly becoming more mainstream and you could argue has become part of a capitalist system!

Two years ago, 1 BTC (Bitcoin) was worth $319 and today (31/01/18) $10130 – an increase of over 3000%. A single share in Microsoft has only just about increased 100% in two years. Recently BTC dropped by about £1000 in a single day, which a share would just never do. Volatile it is, it usually jumps back and there is speculation it could hit $50,000 next year. A bank account from NatWest, Barclays and HSBC is where people normally store their cash, from pounds to hundreds of thousands until now.

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TeamViewer: Talk about partly or fully handing over your keys to the kingdom publicly and please upgrade from XP

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Last month or year, December 2017 and this month January 2018 I was away on holiday driving from England to Europe and back again. I am always on the lookup for poor physical and cyber security. At a top German tourist sight, I spotted this and couldn’t resist taking a photo.

In a very public place was a large screen running XP with a TeamViewer window open. TeamViewer is a very well known remote control product and it authenticates usually with a unique ID + password or numerical PIN. If I was malicious I could have downloaded the TeamViewer app, entered the nine-digit ID and if I was lucky the screen would display the PIN or password. If not a simple call to the tourist office could provide it – social engineering.

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20 new website security tips just added to the Security Guide

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Category: Blog

See: https://www.datasecurityexpert.co.uk/it-security-guide/the-guide/websites.html.