Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A search through the Smart Thinking archives will return many examples of organisations – often councils – accidentally publish or email sensitive information. Here is another: Lewisham Council published residents’ details on website – BBC News In this case the information was on the website for 11 months before the …
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I am in Scotland this week, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ayr, for work so my life contains a lot of motorway driving. That reminded me of this BBC archive video, from Blue Peter in 1965, of what motorways were like when they were first built. How many of you used to …
Guernsey’s Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan has published a report showing that the leaking of personal data on the island has risen. More than 1,000 people affected by data breaches – BBC The Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) says over 1500 people have been impacted. The reported stated …
“Beacuase It’s Friday” has been published for this week – Because It’s Friday – Electronic Mail | Smart Thinking Solutions – but as I was reading the cyber security news this morning this page came up on my BBC News feed. A BBC Newsround report from 1992 about the Michelangelo …
This video starts off a bit odd – “…by the time I actually met Michael, …I didn’t care what he looked like”. “It [email] could rival the use of the telephone [in corporate business] by 1995.” This is where it all started and not one mention of spam or malicious …
