I have implemented information control for one-person organisations – because even a small organisation will have some need to share information with other people and organisations. It is an essential step in any IT and Cyber Security Audit to examine who, has access to what information and what steps are …
Supply Chain Attacks
I am always alerting you to the cyber security issues that WordPress and WordPress plugin report – many of you use WordPress and need to be alert to these breaches in your cyber security. Or at least someone in your organisation or supply chain – if you use a thrid-party …
In the news this week…
As I finish my Back-to-Basics Phishing Email Primer, with an article titled “Phishing Emails are happening right now!“, the BBC publish this: Warning in Guernsey after phishing scam increase – BBC News I am not making this stuff up; board members and senior managers need to have some form of …
Because It’s Friday – Seriously! Dragons!
I had a number of candidates for today’s “Because It’s Friday”, looking for an attractive mate for a lonely plant, a funny story about dumb cyber criminals, another take on attraction by Randall Munroe. But there was one winner. I settled on a scientific study on how fire breathing would …
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Back-to-Basics – A Phishing Email Primer
I am having a break this week from the “Wednesday Bit”, but what I do have for you is my today is my completed Phishing Email Primer. However my track record for these Back-to-Basics mini-series is that they do not stay “complete” for very long, so do keep an eye …
Beyond belief…
I am sure many of you watched the drama about the Horizon Software fiasco, The Post Office, the muppet CEO and Mr Bates and it would have been impossible to miss the ongoing press coverage of the scandal. But then the Post Office did this: Post Office accidentally leaks names …
The reality of ransomware
Following the reported hack of an NHS supplier, earlier this month, it was not likely that the NHS in London was going to pay the ransom demanded by the Qilin cyber criminal gang – so the gang have released the data they stole. London hospitals hackers publish stolen blood test …