Sports clubs and their stars now need to learn how to practice effective Cyber Self-Defence techniques following an alleged cyber spying attack between Major League Baseball clubs in the States. It now seems that cyber espionage and hacking has fallen into the realm of what should be friendly rivalry. A news article caught my eye […]
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The world of cyber-security is strewn with examples of major security vulnerabilities, many of which have led to costly and embarrassing security breaches. But where is the greatest security vulnerability, what has caused the vast majority of security breaches and where do we really need to focus our attention? There is one very simple answer:
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I’m worried. I’m worried because cyber crime is on the rise. I’m worried because corporate and public sector bodies are gathering more and more information about us all whilst at the same time becoming more and more blasé about keeping it secure. I’m worried because data about us is being transmitted and exported to who
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This is a question that security professionals the world over debate endlessly. Does compliance actually mean better security? The simple answer is that in and of itself, no, compliance does not improve security. Compliance and security are two different things. In my opinion, compliance is primarily about reporting, arse covering and finger pointing. Security on
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It’s been an interesting week in the world of Secure Thinking, and that was before we saw the report from the Information Commissioner’s Office that private sector data security breaches have increased 58% in a year. We have had some thought-provoking discussions with clients and seen both sides of the information security picture. On the
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Education, Education, Education – that was the mantra of Tony Blair and the labour party back in 1997. Their aim was to focus the electoate’s attention on the poor state of the UK’s school system. Their goal, or at least their claimed goal, was to lay down core improvements which would enable the UK to
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Yet again Sony is making the news for the wrong reasons – another one of their web sites has been hacked with personal details, usernames and passwords of about one million people being stolen. It certainly looks as though they are being deliberately targeted but you have to ask yourself why this might be the
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News out today that cyber crime costs the UK economy £27bn a year makes for worrying reading. Most of the “costs” to the UK economy fall into 2 areas – £9.2bn in intellectual property theft and £7.6bn in industrial espionage. Both of these categories are areas where losses would occur with or without the internet,
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News yesterday that hackers have been wandering round the networks of major oil and gas companies for years may come as a shock in some quarters. But industrial and national espionage is huge business and the companies involved should have taken steps to prevent such attacks and should have systems in place to alert management
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I have just read an article on the BBC News website about proposed new powers for school head teachers which will allow them to search for mobile phones and even check the content of the devices. As a parent I’m torn on this matter. I can see the logic and potential benefits of child protection
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