Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an article looking at the ups and downs of using USB data storage devices in businesses: If you must use portable USB drives, then you must read this… – CyberAwake One of the down sides was the Japanese man who loss …
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The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School has suffered a cyber-attack that has resulted in confidential student information getting into the public domain. Pupils’ data spread online in Hereford school cyber attack – BBC News The school has been open about the attack but is awaiting the outcome of the police …
We often find problems with client configurations when we take over jobs, particularly when less-technically-able client try to do-it-themselves. If anyone needs an example as to why getting things set up correctly is difficult, Microsoft made a mistake with a server config and exposed some of their client’s information: Microsoft …
Fall back and use your ransomware resilient back-up to recover your encrypted information – and hope that your data classification and segregation has protected your most sensitive information from exfiltration and exposure in the public domain. Or you could hope that the Dutch police have recovered the ransomware decryption key …
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I started writing about this hack on 27 September 2022 Update 29 September 2022 Here is the take from the BBC: Optus: How a massive data breach has exposed Australia – BBC News Update 28 September 2022 This is becoming a very odd story – millions of bit of personal …
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