Lets start with what is CAPTCHA? CAPTCHA is an acronym that stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" and is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human, and in doing so deter bot attacks and spam. Everybody that uses the internet regularly would have ...

Introduction In a landmark decision, the European Union's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has ruled against Meta's data retention practices. This ruling has significant implications for how Meta, and other Ad-funded social networks, operate within the EU. The decision enforces the data minimisation principles of the Ge...

Overview This blog post introduces the concept of emergency access accounts—what they are, why they're essential, and how to manage them securely, including recent recommendations for authentication. The post will focus on M365 controls but the general concepts can be taken away. What are Emergency Access Accounts? An emergency account, sometimes c...

Introduction In a significant development for social media users in the EU, the Appeals Centre Europe (ACE) has been launched to handle complaints against major platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. This new independent body aims to streamline dispute resolutions under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), providing users with a centralised me...

Scams have been around for as long as people have been trading, but the rise of the internet has opened the floodgates for increasingly sophisticated cons. One of the latest and most devastating types is known as the "pig butchering" scam. Despite its unusual name, it doesn't have anything to do with farm animals. It's a financial fraud that preys ...

A couple of weeks ago a new version of Splunk was released: 9.2.2, this included various CVE resolutions (URL) and many of our clients have already rapidly responded and upgraded their version of Splunk. Upgrading is a quick and fairly low effort, low risk exercise so long as you haven't allowed tech-debt to creep into your infra. However once your...

 CND sent two senior members of the team to Splunk Conf.24 in Las Vegas. The following is their account. 'We started the conference by attending talks by Splunk CEO Gary Steele who delivered the opening keynotes along side Cisco Present Chuck Robbins. With Splunk's recent merging with Cisco everyone was intrigued to see whether there would be ...

Scamming is sadly a daily risk whilst navigating cyberspace. I wrote almost exactly 3 years ago in different post about a similar postal scam, masquerading as the Post Office asking for a small missed delivery fee (URL). Well this week it happened again to a family member who started to fall for it, fortunately they stopped but ...

In today's modern world, the risk of cyber threats have increased significantly. With 5.16 billion people globally using the internet, you can understand how the use of hacktivism has increased The question we are asking today, is hacktivism a threat and what is it's impact on everyday society? In today's blog, we will explore this question further...