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 …
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 …
Commercial Spyware in court
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 …
Cyber Warfare
Here is an interesting article that came out over the Christmas holidays. It hopefully will not have a direct impact on you. It does however illustrate why every organisation needs to step-up it’s cyber security game as the threat landscape is rapidly and constantly changing, push by the Russia Ukraine …
Here is something that a number of UK governments have been interested in…
…but were unable to make work. Let’s hope the security employed by the contractor who submitted the lowest bid to run the service is the best money can buy Porn website age checks introduced in Louisiana – BBC News I have discussed this with a number of other cyber security …
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