Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have written about this before – write your plans down because when you and your support teams are under stress, during an incident, a well structured plan can be followed and if required adapted, to guide everyone through. Now the National Cyber Security Centre is telling all organisation to …
In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
It is a while since I have written about passwords – although I did do a deep dive into them and produced this Back-to-Basics primer: Most people would have got the message, by now, that a password has to be complex. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has an opinion …
With the cyber-attacks on UK retail stores making the headlines over the last couple of weeks, I thought I would rerun this article (from CyberAwake, August 2022) on the pros and cons of paying the ransomware gangs. NCSC and the ICO say – Don’t pay the malware ransom. A couple …
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Today we are talking About Links and here are a couple of questions to get us going on the topic: How realistic is the advice “don’t click on that link”? How many times in the day do you need to click on a link to do your work? Now I …
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