The Royal Mail had to close its Click and Drop website this week, as a security slip up allowed some customers access to information, they should not have been able to see. Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop • The Register Engineers solved the issue within …
Some security advice for any business…
If you collect a lot of information that would be of particular interest to threat actors, such as personally identifiable information (PII), bank account details etc, make sure you take care of that information. Or the government could set up an age verification site – and all the threat actors …
A phishing email leads to a £4.4m fine
I write a lot about phishing emails and social engineering attacks, because it is probably the way threat actors could most easily get malware inside your defences and from there compromise your security, your information and ultimately your wallet! The Berkshire based construction company, Interserve Group Ltd, with an employee …
UKGDPR is a good thing… mostly
I have listened to many businesses complain about the UKGDPR legislation – particularly web designers and marketing companies – many citing that users do not like it (of course it has nothing to do with how they now have to look after personally identifiable information properly and justify their use …
Ransomware this week… with an international flavour and some advice.
Here are some of the leading ransomware stories this week: Greek natural gas operator suffers ransomware-related data breach – Bleeping Computers LockBit ransomware group implicated in crippling attack on French hospital – The Record by Recorded Future New ‘Donut Leaks’ extortion gang linked to recent ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) RansomEXX claims …
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