Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Nearly every organisation has some legacy systems somewhere – we still have both flavours of Zip Drives available and other out of date hardware just in case. Our legacy systems are because of what we do, but in most cases, it is financial considerations that means old and vulnerable systems …
Following any type of incident that impacts your organisation, how you respond to your stakeholders is important to the recover your reputation. Following the serious cyber security incident the Co-op have suffered, they have offered members a financial appology – I have had an email from the Co-op explaining my …
We call them scams – which brings to mind Robert Redford and Paul Newman in The Sting – but in reality, these are cyber-crimes with big pay days for the criminals and financial hardship for the victims. It can be difficult to spot the next trend in this type of …
It would have been difficult to miss the fact that Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op and Harrods have all suffered serious cyber-attacks recently. There has been speculation that the attacks originated from a phishing attack, as the hacking group DragonForce bragged in an email that they had hacked an employee …
Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The day the cyber security world thinks about Microsoft patches and vulnerabilities. But remember other vendors also release cyber security and functionality updates and patches on or around the same time – check those as well. Our support team has …
