I wrote about the potential of scams around the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria last week: Earthquake = Scams – Smart Thinking Solutions Now the BBC has a report that looks at the scams that are happening: Scammers profit from Turkey-Syria earthquake – BBC News These people know no …
National Cyber Security Centre warns of Iranian and Russian malicious activities
The attacks being warned about by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) do not impact huge numbers of us, as they are mainly targeted at journalists and politicians. But the NCSC are taking the opportunity to remind everyone that they need to have effective cyber security plans and tools to …
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Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Bill
The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …
The Guardian Cyber Attack
I use The Guardian as one of my trusted “newspaper of record” sources here at Smart Thinking Solutions and as I have previously posted staff have been working from home and other systems compromised by a cyber attack that started last December: One of my trusted sources hit but a …
Two Twitter things
First Twitter is reported to have further reduced it’s online safety team – already severely reduced because of the job cuts Elon Musk initiated when he took over the company. A platform where hate speech of all kinds is easily distributed – including the position of Elon’s plane, Oh he …
