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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The Information Commissioner’s Office has found that staff at The Department of Education allowed a gambling company access to 28 million children to check if they were 18 when opening an account: No-one needs persuading that a database of pupils’ learning records being used to help gambling companies is unacceptable. …
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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 …
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has apologised to customers for a website database breach that has left customer email addresses, but no financial data, in the hands of active phishing spammers. Centre for Computing History apologises for data breach • The Register The website error has now been …
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