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 …
MoD Cyber Attack
It has been reported that the UK government’s Ministry of Defence has suffered a data breach. An an armed forces payroll system was compromised and Grant Shapps MP, the Defence Secretary has reported to MPs that state involvement cannot be ruled out. MoD data breach: State involvement cannot be ruled …
The nasty side of hacking
Julius Kivimäki has been jailed, in Finland for more than six years, for stealing the confidential files of about 33,000 therapy patients and then trying to blackmail victims with that information. Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail – BBC News He tried extorting the company, Vastaamo, first. When …
Not a cyber security issue but it still needs patching…
Continuing the device theme this week – what happens when those devices we rely fail to work properly because they are missing a patch? If it is your firewall then you have a cyber security issue and you need to contact us for some help. If it is your alarm …
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More on Device Security
This is a very good follow on article from – When hardware reaches EOL | Smart Thinking Solutions. Device cyber security is rarely taken seriously by organisations or individuals and it is really important when that device is connected to the internet, and what device today is not connected to …