Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Dropbox reported a cyber attack on 1 November 2022 which they are investigating as they cannot yet tell how the bad actor gained access. The attacker not only garnered the names and email addresses of Dropbox employees, they also managed to access source code. So far, the number of users …
Continue reading “If you have a Dropbox account, change your password”
This article comes via Bruce Schneier, and fits nicely into the Weekend Project – it is about security and has some connections to the posts we run here at Smart Thinking. Both Clive and I have attended Bruce Schneier speaking events, and through Clive’s links with Edinburgh Napier University have …
Weekends here at Smart Thinking is when we run background and more in depth, longer reads about cyber security and technology. So, we are starting our Cyber Security Awareness month – an event which will be all over social media – with an article about social media. As Clive often …
This is what cyber security can become. Not sure what it means? It means navel gazing – thinking about one thing to the exclusion of the wider picture. So what am I talking about? You have been sold anti-virus and a firewall, you’ve set the updates to automatic and have …
When Boris Johnson’s UK government “got Brexit done”, a number of things were agreed upon as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol but British union leaders have been opposed to many of the planned checks of goods going from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland. As a result …
Continue reading “European Commission bans EU formal cooperation with UK on online data issues”
