Some of the posts this week have dealt thinking about the risk to your organisations and how to assess that risk – but I do not want you worrying so here is something for you to start to understand risk: xkcd: Conditional Risk And from the Octagon Blog:
Ada Lovelace – #BeCyberSmart
A look back at one of the innovators of computing and with a stretch an original enabler of modern day hackers! (As Clive says we cannot always be serious here!) Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron, the daughter of Lord Byron the poet. Her parents’ marriage was short-lived and …
To go boldly
It’s not cybersecurity related but… Captain Kirk is going into space! This story has been in the news for several days – and I commented on it on the Octagon blog: Today is the day that William Shatner will be riding on the Blue Origin New Shepard space craft for …
Smile with cats
This was sent to me by a fellow graduate of the Napier Cybersecurity MSc. Here is the Captain Kirk, Star Trek blog I wrote – just in case you are interested.
The Tale of Marconi and the Ethical Hacker – #BeCyberSmart
A story of cybersecurity and privacy from 1903 The image above: British Post Office engineers inspect Marconi’s wireless telegraphy equipment, during a demonstration on Flat Holm island (Source: Cardiff Council Flat Holm Project via Wikimedia Commons) Guglielmo Marconi developed the wireless telegraph machine and in May 1897 he transmitted the …
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