IT Security Archive
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 …
Last week in the US, a Georgia county paid a ransomware criminal $400,000 (about £302,000) to release its IT systems. The malware resulted in almost the entire local government system taken offline and processes revert to paper; officials decided that …
According to research carried out for Carbon Black, an endpoint security company, 88% of UK organisations reported they suffered a cyber breach in the past 12 months, with the average breaches per organisation running at 3.67! Attacks have become more …
Anyone who does even a limited amount of analysis of the ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s Office) website can see that, on average in the UK, the time elapsed between the committing of an offence under data protection legislation and the consequent …
Historically, data protection fines tended to be triggered by either cyber breaches or some process or system failure that led to personal data being exposed. Two of the first fines imposed under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) point to …
Risk IQ’s Evil Internet Minute infographic tells you the bad things happening every minute on the Internet: 5 successful ransomware attacks 9 phishing attacks 1,274 new malware variants 5,518 records compromised Any data you look at shows that the scale …
I’m delighted to see that the High Court has found, this morning, that Mrs May’s government cannot trigger Article 50 on its own. As far as I can see, referendums in the UK are only advisory, not binding – which …
