This is an excellent opinion piece by Ian Levy. Privacy Versus Security is a False Choice | WIRED UK Here is a quote from his article to get you started: “The pandemic has shown how central global social media, messaging and collaboration platforms have become in people’s everyday lives. However, …
Google’s Threat Horizon Report
Google’s security team have released a report outlining the active threats they have detected against their services. It includes a number of recommendations to help their users improve their security. Here is the blog: Coin mining, ransomware, APTs target cloud: GCAT report | Google Cloud Blog Here is the full …
Share-trading app Robinhood hit by a data breach
Up to seven million users of the share trading app have had their personal information compromised. It appears to be a ransomware attack as Robinhood has said it was a limited breach and have rejected a demand for a payment. Robinhood trading app hit by data breach affecting seven million …
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NCSC and the Labour Party – do you need an incident response plan?
The Nation Cyber Security has an article about cyber-attacks can lead to the loss of control of your information. In the case of the Labour Party they have lost control of their member’s information because of a data breach at a third party they were doing business with. Weekly Threat …
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Reward offered for pipeline attackers
The US government has offered a reward up to $10million for information relating to the DarkSide hacking group that attacked US oil supply infrastructure in May 2021. US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers – BBC News However as these hackers are thought to be in Russia, even these …
