Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This could be “Because It’s Friday” on a Wednesday, it has been one of those weeks. The internet is awash with articles about the CrowdStrike Global IT Outage – we are of course contributing to that number: The Wednesday Bit on Monday – CrowdStrike Global IT Outage | Smart Thinking …
Of course the hackers would jump onboard CrowdStrike’s problems:
If you have avoided the papers, online news, social media, mainstream news and TV, and did not have to fly, you may have missed that CrowdStrike, Microsoft and world IT had a bad day last Friday. I did not write about the incident then as I wanted the 24hr news …
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It s a while since we have had a space story on “Because It’s Friday” and this one also includes some maths to work out just how big is the Solar System? How astronomers work out the size of the Solar System – The Conversation NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is shown …
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I was reading about the hack of the international telecoms giant AT&T last week, but I noticed the headline of this article about it on the BBC today, that clearly sums up the hack. Hackers steal call records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers – BBC It is the ‘nearly all’ …
Cloudflare, a company best known for protecting clients from various flavours of denial of service attacks, has done the research and calculated that 6.8% of all internet traffic is out to get you. This is an increase of last year’s findings. Application Security report: 2024 update – Cloudflare Cloudflare believes …
For today’s Wednesday Bit, I want to rerun an article I first published in November last year. I was reminded about my article on encryption for two reasons… One of my current IT and Cyber Security Audits has highlighted an issue where very sensitive information is being shared in a …
