Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is not a political story but a cyber security story. Last year it was revealed that the UK’s Electoral Commission – a body charged with maintaining, credibility and openness in the UK’s voting system – had been hacked, about 10 months prior to them making a statement about it. …
Continue reading “Just when you thought the election was behind us!”
This is a quote from our promotional material about creating incident response plans. CrowdStrike If you cause a Global IT Outage you had better have a message that is better than a $10 Uber Eats voucher: CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos – BBC News Your Takeaway …
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If you have avoided the papers, online news, social media, mainstream news and TV, and did not have to fly, you may have missed that CrowdStrike, Microsoft and world IT had a bad day last Friday. I did not write about the incident then as I wanted the 24hr news …
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I was reading about the hack of the international telecoms giant AT&T last week, but I noticed the headline of this article about it on the BBC today, that clearly sums up the hack. Hackers steal call records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers – BBC It is the ‘nearly all’ …
For today’s Wednesday Bit, I want to rerun an article I first published in November last year. I was reminded about my article on encryption for two reasons… One of my current IT and Cyber Security Audits has highlighted an issue where very sensitive information is being shared in a …
