Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Well according to report by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee it is “incoherent and muted”: Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart of UK foreign policy – Foreign Affairs Committee (parliament.uk) Then there was this from last week: UK response to Chinas tech push ‘incoherent and muted’ • …
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There is evidence emerging that Russian cyber gangs – both freelance and state sponsored – are spreading their attacks to countries who are support Ukraine in conflict: Russian ‘Hacktivists’ Are Causing Trouble Far Beyond Ukraine | WIRED UK Russian hackers declare war on 10 countries after failed Eurovision DDoS attack …
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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have written to The Law Society and The Bar Council outlining why it is better for everyone’s (including those infected with the ransomware) not to engage with the threat actors by paying the ransoms demanded. Solicitors urged to …
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GitHub is an useful development and versioning environment – part of it’s growth was to acquire another similar service NPM – a software depository. The software depository is now under possible attack from the simple of threat actors offering malicious packages with names that are just slightly different from the …
Bug bounties are a useful way for vendors – and now government departments – to engage with honest, white hat, cyber security experts, to test systems for flaws. DoD issues call for hackers to dig into networks – The Record by Recorded Future
