Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Following Tuesday’s article showing how cyber gangs are distributing malware via a “gig economy model”, so getting very effective attacks into the hands of less skilled cyber gangs, here is the same idea but applied to the most basic of cyber attacks – card skimming. Credit card skimming services make …
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This is a difficult one. We, like many businesses and organisations, use email marketing – in our case MailChimp – and as part of these campaigns we have to operate within the GDPR rules and we like to track how people interact with our marketing materials. This is carried out …
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Statements have been made this week by the European Union, the United States and other allies relating the WhisperGate cyber attacks that were directed at Ukraine but spilled over into the greater Europe damaging thousands of modems. This damage had the knock on effect of crippling wind turbines and subsequent …
Here is another example of a data breach at a council. Although breach implies someone broke in and stole the data – as opposed to what happened which was that the Council employees themselves just sent the sensitive information out as part of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request – …
This post was originally published on 9 May 2022 Original post Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, passwords and usernames seemed like a good idea for security… However in today’s connected and hacked world, where people still think it is OK to use “liverpool” or a …
Continue reading “FIDO – the new word in identity authentication UPDATED 11 May 2022”
