The promised replacement for the lack lustre Action Fraud service will not be delivered on time. The UK government and the City of London police promised a new online service for reporting cyber fraud by Q2 of this year but the contractors Capita and PwC have failed to deliver. Being …
Ransomware – If the government is not taking it seriously you should…
I will start with this report from The Record about the ransomware risk in the UK: UK government risking ‘catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment,’ parliamentary report warns (therecord.media) If you have now read that, then you should be taking responsibility for your organisation’s readiness for a ransomware or other …
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What do hackers want?
Well in the case of the recent ransomware attack on the British Library they got HR data on the library’s staff. British Library says ransomware hackers stole data from HR files (therecord.media) The Rhysida ransomware gang will soon put that information up for auction on the Dark Web unless the …
Again let’s start the week with Ransomware
Ransomware you need a plan and to get you started I have written a Ransomware Primer for those of you with no plan or those of you who want to check your plan against my advice. Ransomware – A Primer My Ransomware Mini-series came to an end yesterday, with the …
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Move away from text- or voice-based multi-factor authentication
Let’s take a look at what good multi-factor authentication is. I am writing a mini-series for CyberAwake about the mistakes users make when choosing a secure password and how hackers can exploit those mistakes, so a quick look at MFA seems like a good idea. What is multi-factor authentication? A …
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