Twitter – Possible social engineering attack
This evening I managed to end up getting my personal twitter account hijacked and malicious users were able to send out direct messages before I got at least some element…
This evening I managed to end up getting my personal twitter account hijacked and malicious users were able to send out direct messages before I got at least some element…
As you may be aware, the ISO/IEC 27001 standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) was updated and the 2013 version became the "official" version at the start of October…
When it comes to security, there is an unfortunate tendency for organisations (large and small) to fall into the trap of treating their physical security as something separate or different…
Encryption is important. This has always been well known, and with the recent revelations about PRISM and related Government monitoring of communications, people have become understandably more interested in the…
You may want to check your calendars again. Even though we are now well into the 21st century, it seems that some organisations are still sending sensitive data by fax…
It seems some technologies are hard to get rid of and it seems that people are still using fax machines to send data despite them being slow, cumbersome, unreliable and,…
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced today that it has fined Glasgow City Council £150,000 following the loss of two laptops because neither had any encryption software applied. The…
Passwords are in the news again, with yet another headline crying out for the death of the password and claiming that everyone should move to two factor authentication (2FA) for…
On Friday, 15 Feb 13, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced that the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) had been fined £150,000 for a breach of the data protection…
It has been announced that the European Commission, together with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is looking to bring in mandatory reporting of…
In the news today there was a report about a cash delivery being attacked in Brentwood, London, which involved three masked attackers stunning the security guard with a Taser and…
Last week the ICO reported that the directors of a company heavily engaged in spam texting (sending unsolicited commercial messages to people via their mobile / cellular phone) have been…
Another fine has been issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and, again, it is the result of something that could easily have been prevented if a bit of time…
Another Data Protection Act fine (civil monetary penalty) was announced yesterday (25 Oct 12), and again it is largely the result of risk management mistakes meaning that a cheap preventative…