I have implemented information control for one-person organisations – because even a small organisation will have some need to share information with other people and organisations. It is an essential step in any IT and Cyber Security Audit to examine who, has access to what information and what steps are …
In the news this week…
As I finish my Back-to-Basics Phishing Email Primer, with an article titled “Phishing Emails are happening right now!“, the BBC publish this: Warning in Guernsey after phishing scam increase – BBC News I am not making this stuff up; board members and senior managers need to have some form of …
Beyond belief…
I am sure many of you watched the drama about the Horizon Software fiasco, The Post Office, the muppet CEO and Mr Bates and it would have been impossible to miss the ongoing press coverage of the scandal. But then the Post Office did this: Post Office accidentally leaks names …
The reality of ransomware
Following the reported hack of an NHS supplier, earlier this month, it was not likely that the NHS in London was going to pay the ransom demanded by the Qilin cyber criminal gang – so the gang have released the data they stole. London hospitals hackers publish stolen blood test …
Microsoft backs down…
Well it was pretty obvious that the outcry by cyber security and privacy experts around the world, against Microsoft’s proposal to include an automatic function to screenshot your computer every few seconds, to produce a searchable record of EVERYTHING you have done on your computer, was a bad idea. Don’t …
