Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Sorry about the headline by as crisp and snack producer KP is reporting it has been hit with a ransomware cyber security incident – I could not resist it. KP Snacks hack prompts supplies warning – BBC News There may be a shortage of your favourite snack!
“Do not make decisions about privacy unless you are equipped to do so” This means before entering into any deal that involves the sharing of information, you are accountable for, make sure the correct technical questions have been have been answered correctly. If you cannot ask them and if you …
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Following the recent publicity of Linux vulnerabilities, here is an announcement from The Linux Foundation, of $10m of donations to their Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Among the donors are Microsoft and Google. Linux Foundation announces $10 million cross-industry investment in Open Source Security Foundation (scmagazine.com)
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has had to write off about £2m of fees because of the hack they suffered in 2020 in which they lost a substantial amount of data. But the true cost of the cyber security incident remains unknown. Full cost of 2020 cyber attack on …
Here is an interesting article from the team at Apache dealing with patching the Log4j problem: The Apache Log4j team talks about the Log4Shell patching process – The Record by Recorded Future But the exploits in the wild are still happening: Threat actor target Ubiquiti network appliances using Log4Shell exploits …
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