In 2015 the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust gave Google’s AI division, DeepMind, access to the personal medical records of 1.6 million patients. In 2017 the ICO said the NHS Trust “had not done enough to protect the privacy of patients when it shared data with Google”. Now a …
It cannot all be serious… #BeCyberSmart
Today’s security snippet comes from Randall Munroe at xkcd – pop over there now and have a look: https://xkcd.com/2522/ I have to agree with sentiment of the comic, multi-factor authentication (MFA, but see note below) can be difficult to set up, no one does it the same, authenticator apps can …
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report
Here is a link to the NCSC weekly threat report for week ending 1/10/2021: Weekly Threat Report – NCSC.GOV.UK
VPN advice
Bruce Schneier’s blog today is pointing at a useful reference document about VPNs. It is produced the The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) both United States agencies and it is targeted at a US audience but it still contains a useful set of …
Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart.
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and to celebrate we shall write about different aspects of the subject every day. Today I just want to raise awareness of simple things you can do to protect yourself from dodgy emails. First of all, check the email address carefully. If the email …
