Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The Wednesday Bit is on its summer holidays at the moment, but here is an article that I thought was worth reminding you about. Planning and Preparation Your incident response plans do not need to be very complicated or long – they just need to cover what you need to …
Following the sabotage on the French rail network on the eve of the Olympic Games in Paris, The Grand Palais Réunion des musées nationaux (Rmn) – the organisation that manages a number of the museums and cultural sites involved in the Olympics – reported that it suffered a ransomware cyber-attack. …
Bruse Schneier has a link to a new patent application that would enable one car to report another car to the authorities for a traffic violation. New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance – Schneier on Security
I am about to go to Scotland on holiday and this showed up on The Conversation: In defence of midges (theconversation.com) I am not sure Diana, or our Scottish family and friends would get much comfort from this point of view. Now for something completely different… …we will continue our …
Continue reading “Because It’s Friday – and it is not funny!”
Multi-factor Authentication – MFA – if you are unsure how this cyber security tool contributes to your security, then have a read of this: If you do know how important MFA is, then you will realise that a fake MFA app would cyber security chaos. Of course, the threat actors …
This is not a political story but a cyber security story. Last year it was revealed that the UK’s Electoral Commission – a body charged with maintaining, credibility and openness in the UK’s voting system – had been hacked, about 10 months prior to them making a statement about it. …
Continue reading “Just when you thought the election was behind us!”
This article started life in couple of ways. Over on CyberAwake I re-ran an article from summer 2022, looking at how some information, useful to a threat actor, could leak out of your organisation this summer, just because of the use of a simple setting in Outlook: The Out-Of-Office Email …
