Julius Kivimäki has been jailed, in Finland for more than six years, for stealing the confidential files of about 33,000 therapy patients and then trying to blackmail victims with that information. Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail – BBC News He tried extorting the company, Vastaamo, first. When …
Not a cyber security issue but it still needs patching…
Continuing the device theme this week – what happens when those devices we rely fail to work properly because they are missing a patch? If it is your firewall then you have a cyber security issue and you need to contact us for some help. If it is your alarm …
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Back to Basics – The Collection II
This week the Wednesday Bit is for reminding you about my collection of mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers. There have been a number of additions, updates and changes since I first ran a “Collection” article. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some …
Microsoft fixes a BitLocker issue
I recently wrote a series on the often overlooked cyber security tool encryption. Encryption – A Primer | Smart Thinking Solutions But you have to be able to rely on your encryption and you need the vendor to fix issues quickly as another word for encryption with out a working …
It looks like being a week of device security – these numbers should convince you to do something
I have written about the risks of Android apps – a lot, see the highlights of the issue here: Device Security (Pt. 2) | Smart Thinking Solutions However to reinforce the statement that apps downloaded from the Google Play Store can be a serious security risk on your organisation’s information, …
