The Infowars, shock jock, Alex Jones, broadcast and then repeated, hateful unsubstantiated lies, about the tragic events at Sandy Hook – now he will have to pay… a lot! The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect | WIRED UK Sandy Hook review: anatomy of an American tragedy – and the obscenity …
The things Google is doing to keep you safe online
Here are a couple of short articles from the Google blog that describes the different ways the company actively combats the threat actors to improve everyone’s online safety: Meet the hackers keeping you safe online (blog.google) Continuous innovation to keep you safe online (blog.google)
NHS August ransomware attack – data was stolen as well
Advanced, the NHS supplier at the centre of the August cyber-attack, were quick to go to press with their success of containing and limiting the reach of the ransomware attack. However now, after a considered investigation, whilst confining the attack, the threat actors exfiltrated data from the systems: It was …
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That old chestnut again – yours and my privacy
Let me say this before I start, I support any action both legal and technical that will be effective in preventing the exploitation of the vulnerable. We support this government initiative (check the page footer): Let’s stop abuse together I like parts of the government’s forthcoming Online Safety Bill and …
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Because It’s Friday… Data, Data, Data and do you know what a computer data punch card is?
Whilst researching for yesterday’s installment of the Insider Threat series, that I am writing over on our online training site CyberAwake, I read an article by Bret Arsenault, from Microsoft that opened with this quote: The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than …
