Why milk? The idea behind the “Because It’s Friday” series is as a relief to the stream of “bad news” cyber security posts that is the purpose of this news site. The stories could be funny, about technology or science fiction, often they are about space, or they are just …
May the Fourth – Happy Star Wars Day
May the Fourth For May the Fourth last year I found the original BBC Film ’77 review of Star Wars by Barry Norman – I thought it was worth revisiting for those of you that missed it: The post also links to some archive photos of the release from The Guardian.
Ransomware is still the top threat…
Another school has been hit by ransomware. They tend to be soft targets for threat actors as they use a range of predictable applications, their IT teams are not large, IT tends not to be a priority and they have a large group of potential victims for phishing emails etc. …
UK Emergency Alert System is a good idea
Many countries have a national emergency alert system, delivered to their citizens via suitable mobile phones – now there is a UK Emergency Alert System. These systems can be operated by region and issue emergency alerts for serious weather events, earthquakes etc.. Although false alarms happen the rapid warning of …
Because It’s Friday – The largest rocket ever launched the SpaceX Starship
At the end of a week of cyber security news – most of which is not happy stuff – it is good to go into the weekend with something lighter. This week a big rocket – the SpaceX Starship. Fully laden with about 5,000 metric tons of liquid oxygen and …
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Business continuity – Cyber breaches take time to fix
Why is a business continuity plan a good idea? Here’s why -the Acro Criminal Records Office is still facing disruption following the cyber security breach last month. Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack – BBC News Your takeaway from this is that a well funded government resource …
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Data stolen in an extortion ransomware attack
To increase the attack surface of this extortion ransomware attack threat actors did not go after a single organisation, they targeted and breached an IT company that was holding information for more than 140 organisations, much of it very sensitive: Cyber attack: Data from charities stolen in ransomware attack – …
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