Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “Don’t lose that laptop – but if you do… #BeCyberSmart”
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. …
Continue reading “Ransomware – remember it will not just go away”
Back in February, I wrote an article about some of the social engineering tactics used by attackers when sending out malicious email. I know Diana has spoken about the email cybersecurity threat but I thought today I would take you back to that article as the cybersecurity threat posed by …
Continue reading “Something I have written about before… #BeCyberSmart”
Today’s security snippet comes from Randall Munroe at xkcd – pop over there now and have a look: https://xkcd.com/2522/ I have to agree with sentiment of the comic, multi-factor authentication (MFA, but see note below) can be difficult to set up, no one does it the same, authenticator apps can …
