Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have made cyber security headlines over the past months with the attacks on their infrastructure: Marks & Spencer Cyber Attack UK Retail Cyber-attacks Phishing Attacks But the attack is not the whole story when it comes to an organisation dealing with an incident – …
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In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
Bruce Schneier has an excellent piece on his blog this week, discussing how US voter perceptions of the cyber security of the voting system, influences their confidence in the results. This confidence rapidly decreases if their candidate loses! How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems – Schneier on Security …
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Today, I want to look at one of the fundamentals of cyber security – accountability – in particular, I want to talk about email communications. Email communications Nearly thirty years ago, I sat in on a meeting of senior solicitors as they got to grips with how they were going …
As part of the Cyber Security Awareness Training I deliver, I always emphasise that any credentials people are entrusted with have a value and should be protected accordingly. Here is the proof of that statement – credentials for sale: ‘Russian Market’ emerges as a go-to shop for stolen credentials – …
