Millions of people, working from home, using personal IT equipment rather than hardened corporate equipment, and often connecting to corporate services without going through a working VPN, provide cyber attackers with millions of routes into secure networks.
You would have thought that IT Managed Service Providers would know about ransomware, wouldn’t you? Well, clearly not all MSPs are equal: US MSP, Cognizant, admitted last week that a successful April ransomware attack would negatively affect its Q2 earnings …
No. The standard was written to support organisations of all sizes, all types and in all sectors. And as it is increasingly normal for organisations to be largely or entirely home-based, accessing temporary office-space if, as and when, necessary, so …
According to the World Health Organization, the total number of coronavirus deaths, worldwide, as at 0100 on 28 April 2020, is 202,733. At this point, Covid-19 is the 23rd highest cause of death worldwide.
In troubled times – when faced with socio-economic uncertainty or political instability – organisations tend to pull in their horns, cut expenditure and save for the whatever the future holds. Cyber criminals love troubled times, because they know that organisations …
After a year of apparent inaction, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has struck twice in two days with the two largest privacy-related fines in the EU. I think organisations can draw two key lessons from these actions: 1. You can’t …
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) announced today that it will be fining British Airways £183m for the website date breach it suffered last year. I said at the time that a data breach on this scale and which lasted as …
The City of Florida, after agreeing to spend $1 million (about £790,000) on new IT infrastructure after hackers captured their systems three weeks ago, has now agreed to pay $600k to get access to their systems. The ransomware was apparently …
For 7 months, cyber criminals had access to – and successfully exfiltrated – the extensive personal records of some 20 million US citizens. The American Medical Collections Agency had spent $1 million, as recently as 2015, upgrading and modernising its …
Well, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) is markedly faster out of the blocks in terms of dealing with PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) breaches than in dealing with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) ones. Some 16 company directors have …
