Weekly podcast: TalkTalk, Facebook and Yahoo
This week, we discuss a record ICO fine for TalkTalk, new encryption for Facebook, and state surveillance of all Yahoo Mail Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 7th October. Here...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Get Safe Online Day, Microsoft zero-days, alleged LinkedIn...
This week, we discuss new cyber crime statistics released to mark Get Safe Online Day, a handful of zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows machines, and the arrest in Prague of a Russian man in...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Dyn DDoS attack, Mirai botnet and more mega breaches
This week, we discuss theMirai botnet DDoS attack that affected the Dyn Managed DNS service and, with it, many household names, plus mega breaches compromising the personal data of millions of Weebly,...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: UK Cyber Security Strategy, malware delays ops, and inept...
This week, we discuss the launch of the UK’s National Cyber Security Strategy for 2016 – 2021, a malware attack on Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and how a cyber criminal was...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: UK adopts GDPR, £2.5 million stolen from Tesco Bank, Cyber...
This week, we discuss the government’s confirmation that the GDPR will apply in the UK, the online theft of £2.5 million from 9,000 Tesco Bank Current accounts, and the youngest ever winner of the...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: TalkTalk teen, biggest breach of the year, Tesco Bank again....
This week, we discuss the 17-year-old who admitted to last year’s TalkTalk cyber attack, the compromise of more than 400 million ‘adult’ accounts, further news about the Tesco Bank breach, and a $1...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Remote ATM jackpotting; WordPress RCE vulnerability; Three...
This week, we discuss a jackpotting malware attack that caused cash machines across Europe to spit out cash, a WordPress RCE vulnerability affecting 27% of the web, and a data breach affecting more...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: National Lottery, Mirai botnet, free rides in San Francisco
This week, we discuss suspicious activity on online National Lottery players’ accounts, 900,000 Deutsche Telekom routers knocked offline by the Mirai botnet, and a ransomware attack on the San...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Dailymotion, Europol and Scotland Yard
This week, we discuss a massive data breach at Dailymotion, a very serious data breach at Europol, and the Met Police’s novel way of bypassing iPhone encryption. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Yahoo breached again, plus TalkTalk and Ashley Madison
This week we discuss the compromise of another 1 billion Yahoo records, the sentencing of the boy responsible for the TalkTalk breach, and Ashley Madison’s $1.6 million settlement. Hello and welcome to...
View ArticleWeekly Podcast: cyber security in review
This week, we look at the biggest stories of the year. Cast your mind back, if you’d be so very kind, dear listener, to our first podcast of 2016, in which we revealed that some 480 million records had...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Hello Kitty, school ransomware and airport security concerns
This week, we discuss the reappearance of the exposed Hello Kitty database, a warning from Action Fraud about ransomware attacks on schools, and an unsecured airport system leaking passenger data....
View ArticleWeekly podcast: NHS cyber attack, new White House appointment and killer...
This week, we discuss a cyber attack on England’s biggest NHS trust, the appointment of Rudy Giuliani to a White House cyber security committee and new research into the biggest threat to critical...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Sports Direct, fileless malware and remote printer hijacking
This week, we discuss a hack that Sports Direct didn’t tell its staff about, a spate of malware attacks against enterprise networks, and 150,000 printers churning out ASCII robots. Hello and welcome to...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Yahoo breached (again), university attacked by lampposts, and...
This week, we discuss yet another Yahoo breach, a university attacked by its own Internet of Things network, and a WordPress vulnerability that leaves blogs open to defacement. Hello and welcome to the...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Operation BugDrop, Georgia-Pacific and the DHS
This week, we discuss a large-scale cyber-reconnaissance operation, a former system administrator who caused $1 million of damage, and access problems at the US Department of Homeland Security Hello...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Cloudflare, Cloudbleed, CloudPets and Yahoo
This week, we discuss the Cloudbleed bug, a breach affecting CloudPets, and the latest news from Yahoo. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 3 March 2017. Here are this week’s...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Shamoon, Year Zero and Confide
This week, we discuss the re-emergence of the Shamoon/Disttrack malware, a new trove of CIA documents from WikiLeaks and “numerous security vulnerabilities” in an app used by President Trump’s aides....
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Fraud, phishing and fighting the cyber threat
This week, we discuss new reports from KPMG, Beaming and the NCSC, which cover a huge increase in cyber fraud, the massive business cost of phishing, and how to fight the “significant and growing”...
View Article$100 million phishing scam, Yahoo (again), LastPass vulnerabilities, and ICO...
This week, we discuss the arrest of a Lithuanian man over a $100 million phishing scam, an indictment against the alleged perpetrators of the Yahoo breach that compromised half a billion accounts, a...
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