Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I think I will just keep adding to this post as the politicians work their way through this cyber security issue. Original Post 9 February 2023 There are cyber security implications here, that disevr to be properly investigated – an MP’s email have been stolen, either he was hacked or …
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According to the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Prof Fraser Sampson the proposed changes in the law will be diluting the privacy and use protection that his organisation currently offers but which he thinks is currently inadequate. The proposed law – the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill – with …
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It has emerged, during a session of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS), that a government minister instructed Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to keep secret the extent of a ransomware attack in January 2020. This pressure for secrecy caused problems for the council when it come …
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 multiple suppliers of commercial spyware (nearly) all claim to only sell their products to national governments or authorised law enforcement agencies – yet the use of these products by other agencies seems widespread. Then there is who the national government is! The Canadian based research group Citizen Lab have …
