Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A follow-on from last week’s article by Ben about Windows BitLocker encryption – BitLocker for Cyber Security. BitLocker for full disk encryption As Ben described, Windows BitLocker is a feature that encrypts your entire drive to protect your data from unauthorized access or theft. It is available on certain versions …
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BitLocker is an often-overlooked cyber security tool provided by Microsoft. Why you should understand BitLocker Oh dear, you have lost your laptop, perhaps it was stolen or maybe you simply threw it away. I hope there was nothing important or sensitive on it! At best you would have coursework or …
To increase the attack surface of this extortion ransomware attack threat actors did not go after a single organisation, they targeted and breached an IT company that was holding information for more than 140 organisations, much of it very sensitive: Cyber attack: Data from charities stolen in ransomware attack – …
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An international group of research cryptographers have deciphered over fifty letters, written and encoded by Mary, Queen of Scots, during her imprisonment and passed onto trusted French allies before her execution on February 8, 1587. Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots | Ars Technica …
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I use OneNote a lot – so I had to follow up on my previous post about OneNote attachments being used as an attack vector. OneNote has become the threat actors new choice of attachment probably because Microsoft closed the door on macro attacks. In the wild, Microsoft OneNote’ .one’ …
