Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Lindy Cameron (photo above from NCSC website), the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has made a strong speech emphasising the devastating threat ransomware poses to businesses and organisations. Lindy Cameron at Cyber 2021, Chatham House – NCSC.GOV.UK UK cyber head says Russia responsible for ‘devastating’ ransomware …
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Here is a link to the NCSC weekly threat report for week ending 8/10/2021: Weekly Threat Report 8th October 2021 – NCSC.GOV.UK
Yesterday as part of our October BeCyberSmart blog and Octagon’s regular blog both myself and Martin wrote about passwords: Leaks – #BeCyberSmart – Smart Thinking Solutions YOUR CREDENTIALS – are they safe? – Octagon Technology Today I wanted to tell you about what a strong password is so I have …
This story has been doing the rounds on the tech news sites for a couple of days. Hackers have had unauthorised access inside the systems of one of the worlds global communications backbone companies for nearly five years. Syniverse (a company millions of people seem to be dependent on but …
Continuing our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month From time to time it seems like it is government or MOD policy to leave a laptop on a train or taxi (delete as applicable). Then there are the smartphones that they lose. Thousands of mobiles and laptops lost by UK government in …
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