IT Security Archive
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 …
I’ve talked, for some years, about the disconnect between managements stating that cyber security is on their agenda, or under control, and the rapidly rising number of data breaches, as reported in multiple surveys and reports, as well as increasingly …
The Chancellor of the Exchequer today says Britain will strike back at foreign cyber threats and that cyber criminals can strike everyone, from the bedroom to the board room. He’s right. Everyone – and businesses most of all – has …
Most businesses will make the best of Brexit. From a broader perspective, however, vandals are using the Brexit vote to destroy Britain. The referendum was in law directional only; neither the government nor the Brexiteers had or have a coherent …
Our internal position on GDPR and Brexit was, on 27th June 2016: The key thing, from a practical point of view, is that negotiations to leave the EU are unlikely to be completed before – at the earliest – October …
