Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Industrial systems, large and small run on computers – so why not attack them? So here is the scenario – which Octagon has had to deal with in the past – someone leaves and forgets to leave the password for a system that is accessed only occasionally. You cannot contact …
A UK Government’s report looking at cybersecurity breaches across the country, (UK Government. 2022), prepared by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (and sport!) showed clearly email phishing is a real threat: “Of the 39% of UK businesses who identified an attack, the most common threat vector was phishing …
We have come a long way in cryptography and computing since the Colossus electronic computer, (above), was built at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, to break the Lorenz cipher. With the advances in computing technology, there is a foreseeable point in the future, possibly only ten years, when …
This post was first published on 20 June 2022 Update 22 June 2022 We have not had to wait for the next Patch Tuesday for the fix – Microsoft has issued an out-of-band patch for Windows: Windows emergency update fixes Microsoft 365 issues on Arm devices (bleepingcomputer.com) Original post There …
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Mega is a popular cloud storage service – with over 250million users. A minimum requirement for any cloud storage service is that the data at rest in their data centres must be encrypted. It seems that Mega’s is not, even though their own publicity states your data will be safely …
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