Paul and Graham give their usual round-up of issues both within and outside the University; Graham takes a particular look at Cisco"s SmartInstall.

About four minutes into the episode, Paul alludes to a change in the way people contact CERT but wondered if it might be premature to mention it. The day after we recorded this, an e-mail went out to the uis-announce mailing list detailing the way that security response is to become a second-line service from 11 April with immediate issues being resolved by the UIS Service Desk. Perfect timing!

  • UIS Service Desk: service-desk@uis.cam.ac.uk
  • UIS Cyber Security pages: http://www.uis.cam.ac.uk/cybersecurity
  • E-mail CERT: cert@cam.ac.uk
  • Phish of the Day: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/security/stay-safe-online/phishing/phishy
  • National Cyber Security Centre: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/
  • Three Random Words: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/three-random-words-or-thinkrandom-0
  • The Human Factor: http://jennyradcliffe.com/the-deception-chronicles/
  • US govt certificate non-renewal: http://jennyradcliffe.com/the-deception-chronicles/
  • Tampa mayor Twitter hacked: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/25/hijacker-pwns-tampa-mayors-account-2-weeks-before-election/
  • Drupal patching: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/27/drupal_rce_exploits_seen_wild/
  • Chrome flagging lookalikes: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-to-get-warnings-for-lookalike-urls/

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