Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
With the cyber-attacks on UK retail stores making the headlines over the last couple of weeks, I thought I would rerun this article (from CyberAwake, August 2022) on the pros and cons of paying the ransomware gangs. NCSC and the ICO say – Don’t pay the malware ransom. A couple …
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This is not a political story but a cyber security story. Last year it was revealed that the UK’s Electoral Commission – a body charged with maintaining, credibility and openness in the UK’s voting system – had been hacked, about 10 months prior to them making a statement about it. …
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Well if it is, that can be expensive in money and reputation – it may even get you into the press, so everyone can see what you did. Panera Bread likely paid a ransom in March ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) In the UK there is also this advice to consider: It …
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Well it was pretty obvious that the outcry by cyber security and privacy experts around the world, against Microsoft’s proposal to include an automatic function to screenshot your computer every few seconds, to produce a searchable record of EVERYTHING you have done on your computer, was a bad idea. Don’t …
