This is a place we are familiar with – our son graduated from Heriot-Watt University. Heriot-Watt University in second week of outage • The Register The cyber attack and it’s consequences are still impacting University services two weeks after the attack. The vector of the attack appears to be legacy …
Has Microsoft been compromised? Check your Microsoft independent backups. UPDATED
This post was originally made on 22 March 2022 Following attacks on Nvidia and Samsung, there were claims over the weekend form the extortion gang Lapsus$ that they had breached Microsoft. Microsoft investigates Lapsus$ claim of Bing, Cortana theft • The Register Microsoft investigating Lapsus$ claims of Bing, Cortana data …
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A question I am often asked…
I am frequently asked what I think of DropBox or other method for organisations to share files across the internet with other organisations, often after I have been speaking about Microsoft 365, OneDrive and SharePoint. Possibly after I have mentioned that these services that have, authentication, authorisation and accountability (AAA) …
Why child safety can lead to a limit on your freedom of speech…
I have written much about the Government’s latest attempts to control the internet, their Online Safety Bill. For example: Bad laws will only give a political sticky plaster to the technologically uninformed – Smart Thinking Solutions Another attack on privacy in the name of protecting children – Smart Thinking Solutions …
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The Isle of Wight Council – when is a data breach not really a breach?
When does the term “data breach” help you PR machine mitigate a cyber security data breach – especially when it involves the personal information of children? When you (The Isle of Wight Council) actually just email the data out. Isle of Wight children’s details sent out in data breach – …
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