Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have written a number of articles over the past few weeks about how organisations need to be thinking about theirs’s and their employee’s devices and cyber security. Device Security (Pt. 1) Device Security (Pt. 2) Device Security Just One More Thing… When hardware reaches EOL – Device Security These …
The British Library ransomware story continues… …now the hackers have released British Library customer information to the Dark Web. British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web – BBC News The Rhysida ransomware group threatened to release the stolen information unless a 20 Bitcoin ransom was paid, …
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If you collect any data – especially customer data containing personal or financial information – you need to keep it secure. Whether it is in house, on the cloud or on a web server, in storage or transit, is it time you carried out some due diligence to check things …
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The police forces of Norfolk and Suffolk have reported errors with the information they released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, processed between April 2021 and March 2022. You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak – The …
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 …
