Ransomware can happen to any organisation. Tanbridge House School in West Sussex has paid an unstated fee to keep their information out of the public domain and secret following a ransomware attack. Students and teachers at English high school impacted by ransomware attack (therecord.media) However The Ransom House cyber criminals still …
The Ransomware mini-series is almost complete
The penultimate part of my mini-series looking at Ransomware has been published today on CyberAwake: Before – Ransomware Part 9 – CyberAwake Here are the rest of the parts – published across Smart Thinking, CyberAwake and Octagon Technology. Ransomware Mini-Series (2023) Ransomware: Is it a Threat? (Part 1) A Bag …
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Where do you keep that Incident Response Plan? (Ransomware Mini-series Part 8)
Throughout this ransomware mini-series and other articles I write I refer to important documents you should have, a Cyber Security Master Document, an Incident Response Plan, a Business continuity Plan etc.. Once you have created these documents you need to keep them somewhere and that is something you need to …
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I have a SanDisk device that used to have encrypted information on – do you? UPDATED
This post was originally published on 14 June 2022. Update 5 September 2022 ENCSecurity has updated it’s ENCDataVault software to fix these issues – so now I can update and resume using my portable SanDisk USB drive. Update for ENCDataVault Software – ENC Security Help Center (zendesk.com) Watch out for …
Parcel delivery service Yodel suffers a cyber attack
There is not much information on this issue, as the firm’s communications are jammed with customer complaints: Special delivery: Yodel latest victim of cyber ‘incident’ • The Register Yodel has acknowledged there is a problem on it’s web site, and is posting updates on social media. Any organisation can be …
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Ransomware attack have increased again
I must be sounding a bit like a broken record (see references at the bottom), as I regularly write about the fact that ransomware attacks are ever increasing! Here is another report showing just that: A favorite of cybercriminals and nation states, ransomware incidents increase again | TechRepublic Just know …
