Really big numbers when it comes to leaking user’s personal data

One of the earliest posts on Smart Thinking was about Twitter being hacked: Twitter hack – Smart Thinking Solutions Now here we are again. What appears to be a lone threat actor, got inside their systems, with enough time to exfiltrate a substantial amount of Twitter user personal information. This …

Air-gapped systems used to be among the most secure IT systems – but they may be not anymore…

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An air-gapped system is designed to be very secure. It is not connected to any other system, network or internet – literally a physical gap between it and the rest of the IT world. If it is not connected, then threat actors cannot connect to it. Mordechai Guri, from Ben-Gurion …

A few of the ransomware stories in the media at the moment – to give you some idea of the scale of the cyber security risk you have to plan for. Do you need training?

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I have gathered here just a selection of the ransomware stories that have made the headlines – for these there are many more that go unreported in the media or even outside the organisation. ‘Lives are at stake’: hacking of US hospitals highlights deadly risk of ransomware | Hacking | …