Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I wrote about this yesterday: UK National Crime Agency shares compromised passwords – Smart Thinking Solutions Here are two more stories about The National Crime Agency’s (NCA) donation of passwords in the wild. UK donates 225 million stolen passwords to hack-checking site – BBC News UK National Crime Agency finds …
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The BBC has piece by in it’s Tech Tent podcast looking at the possible effectiveness of proposed UK laws to protect young people and stop disinformation. But will it work? Tech Tent – The UK’s plan to rein in big tech – BBC Sounds Here is The Guardian’s take on …
Meta (Facebook) has taken steps to remove companies and organisations from it’s platforms it accuses of “… targeting individuals including journalists and human rights activists.” Meta bans surveillance-for-hire firms for targeting users – BBC News More on this here: Facebook takes down accounts for seven “cyber-mercenary” firms – The Record …
Sainsbury’s payroll hit by Kronos attack – BBC News The payroll systems provider Kronos has been hit by a ransomware attack which has impacted a range of businesses here in the UK and the US. The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has reportedly lost a week of data relating to it’s 150.000 …
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This was always going to be an issue when we posted about it last week – here is more information. Log4shell: US demands Christmas Eve deadline for hack fix – BBC News CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability • The Register CISA issues ’emergency directive,’ orders federal agencies …
