Cyber Security Archive
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 …
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 …
Can you imagine an ostrich, with its head in the ground, backing toward a precipitous cliff-edge? Highly unlikely, I know, but then there’s the UK Parliament… In the great Brexit debate, the leaders of both the UK’s main political parties …
CyRiM’s (Cyber Risk Management Project) chilling report, Global infection by contagious malware , describes a scenario in which a well-resourced, motivated and malicious cyber team creates a self-replicating worm that encrypts all devices and wipes backups. I recently commented on what …
Everyone now knows that a personal data breach may lead to an ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) investigation, financial penalties and/or other regulatory action. But what about the commercial consequences? It’s long been a standard observation that data breaches lead to …
While the recent statutory instrument that amends the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) appears to be aimed at the directors of organisations that brazenly flout the law in respect of direct marketing (whether by email or telephone), the reality …
There is a trend among organisations that suffer data breaches – such as Eurostar, which has just identified a major data breach – to downplay their impact by saying things like ‘while usernames and passwords were compromised, the good news …
The Court of Appeal has upheld the lower court decision that supermarket chain Morrisons is vicariously liable for a data breach by an employee. The detail of this decision is interesting. The Court found that, as Morrisons had instructed the …
