Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Before we start keep your finger away from that F12 key. In Missouri the Governor believes that a journalist using F12, on a badly coded website run by his state government, would cost the taxpayers of that state $50m! Missouri ends effort to prosecute ‘view source’ journalist • The Register …
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I have just written about one organisation that needs to update legacy systems for it’s users security and here is another story about an industry where legacy systems are to widely used. Get Ready for Cyber-Attacks on Global Food Supplies | WIRED UK
Following on from the posts over the last couple of weeks about the “business like” nature of the cyber criminals, here is an article following the money. 74% of ransomware revenue goes to Russia-linked hackers – BBC News Globalised Threat of Ransomware – it is time to think about joining …
With the huge increase in online shopping and deliveries over the past couple of years, these have become one of the favourite attack vectors for cyber criminals. Usually it is some type of impersonation/social engineering attack via email, with the intention to steal sensitive information from you. Just be very …
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Dina Temple-Raston writing at The Record, shows how we have to treat hackers with “respect”. Not respect for what they do or how they do it, but respect so our response to them matches their determination to make money. Ransomware-as-a-service, or RaaS, is the franchise business model for cyber criminals, …
