Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
When sending a group email out, but you do not want the group to know who the individuals are – use the bcc option. We all know this, and we all know of instances where it has not been used and the identities of all the other recipients have been …
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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. …
Continue reading “Just when you thought the election was behind us!”
A vast amount of data about UK citizens has been stolen from the UK Electoral Commission in a data breach, but it has taken them some time to let the public know they lost control of it: Public notification of cyber-attack on Electoral Commission systems What data has been compromised? …
I have just written about the information leak at NHS Lanarkshire because of the use of WhatsApp and I regularly talk about rogue Android apps that get into the Google Play Store – here I bring both of them together. A rogue app that steals WhatsApp user data: Hackers steal …
I have had various discussions with various clients about the use of WhatsApp. They like it as it is often already used by their people, works on Android and iPhones and they point me to the security WhatsApp advertises. I then point out that there is no accountability and Microsoft …
