This story has been doing the rounds on the tech news sites for a couple of days. Hackers have had unauthorised access inside the systems of one of the worlds global communications backbone companies for nearly five years. Syniverse (a company millions of people seem to be dependent on but …
Leaks – #BeCyberSmart
Twitch – the video streaming platform favoured by many gamers and content providers has been in the mainstream and tech news since yesterday because they had a cybersecurity leak! (The image at the head of the page was snipped from Twitch’s web site about 20 minutes ago!) It appears that …
Know the jargon – #BeCyberSmart
You may think you know exactly what a common word means in normal life, but once you get into any kind of specialised subject, the meanings can be different. Today I shall give you the meanings of a few words in cyber security, together with everyday examples of what the …
Don’t lose that laptop – but if you do… #BeCyberSmart
Continuing our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month From time to time it seems like it is government or MOD policy to leave a laptop on a train or taxi (delete as applicable). Then there are the smartphones that they lose. Thousands of mobiles and laptops lost by UK government in …
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Ransomware – remember it will not just go away
There is an article here: Baby’s Death Alleged to Be Linked to Ransomware | Threatpost Looking at the case being brought against Springhill Medical Centre, Mobile, Alabama following a death of a baby due to problems caused in delivering life saving care because the hospital had suffered a ransomware attack. …
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