There have been numerous high profile breaches of twitter accounts recently. Most significant was the fake tweet from the Associated Press twitter account about a bomb in the White House, which resulted in a blip in US stock market prices. Other noteworthy victims were CBS, NPR, both...
The FT today has an article on the dangers of trusting subcontractors with your company data. Security experts generally decry outsourcing, maintaining the drive to lower costs means security is forgotten. There are some reasons to be sympathetic to that posture. The modern organisation is utterly...
The phrase cyber attack gets used a lot, in a lot of different contexts. Any bad thing done over the internet is generally characterised by the media as a cyber attack. But does the phrase really mean anything? This week South Korea was under cyber attack...
News of a cyber attack on South Korea has made the news this morning. Details remain sketchy but press reports include outages at three broadcasters and two banks. There is little technical detail, but there does appear to have been some disruption. To quote from the...
Demand for cyber attack insurance has risen significantly in the past year, according to one broker, which raises the question - can you insure against the risk of cyber attack? The answer is - it depends. Firstly on what you are defining as cyber attack, and...
Reuters report that cyber security issues have surpassed terrorism as the number one concern of the intelligence agencies in the US: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-usa-threats-idUKBRE92B0LS20130312 This comes on the back of the recent cyber security executive order, and lengthy list of US companies coming forward to admit they have been...