Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Sometimes a cyber-attack is something as easy as adding a button saying “view document” when whale phishing senior people in an organisation. Ongoing Microsoft Azure account hijacking campaign targets executives (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway When was the last time you audited the credentials and associated authorisations of those credentials? If you …
For those of you who read Smart Thinking regularly, you will realise that this “Wednesday Bit” has been published a day late – the reason was a Cyber Security Awareness talk I gave yesterday at the East Lincs Expo. I delayed publishing, rather than writing an article and leaving it …
There are hundreds of reasons organisations, lobbyists and some politicians will quote for not reporting a cyber-security breach – most will have to do with money. The one reason the rest of us should be in favour of reporting rules is that it is our data that these organisations have …
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Not from this cyber security expert: Ransomware victims targeted by fake hack-back offers (bleepingcomputer.com) Cyber-criminals will take advantage of anything to exploit a victim. Your takeaway from this… You need a ransomware plan and you can get (real) help with that starting with my Ransomware Primer – a series of …
It’s back on… Due to circumstances beyond everyone’s control our cyber security webinar had to be postponed. For those of you who put the time by for the event we are sorry and look forward to meeting with you at this new event. For those of you who did not …
