Weekly Podcast: Home Sec duped, NotPetya, MalwareTech nicked, new data...
This week, we discuss a prankster’s email conversation with Amber Rudd, the ongoing effects of the NotPetya malware pandemic, the arrest of WannaCry sinkholer Marcus Hutchins by the FBI, and the launch...
View ArticleWeekly Podcast: Holyrood attack, NotPetya (again) and retail breaches double
This week, we discuss a brute-force attack on the Scottish Parliament, the ongoing costs of June’s NotPetya attacks, and a double in the number of data breaches affecting the retail sector. Hello and...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: swiftQueue, Neymar and FTSE 350 cyber governance
This week, we discuss an data breach at an NHS contractor, the hacking of FC Barcelona’s Twitter account, and a new government report on cyber security awareness. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Onliner Spambot, Notts County Council and WikiLeaks
This week, we discuss the exposure of 711 million email addresses by a spambot’s server, a £70,000 ICO fine for Nottinghamshire County Council, and a cyber attack on WikiLeaks. Hello and welcome to the...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Equifax, Facebook and Kaspersky
This week, we discuss the Equifax data breach, a fine for Facebook and a ban for Kaspersky. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 15 September 2017. Here are this week’s stories....
View ArticleWeekly podcast: ransomware and its ethics, and the celebrities that endanger...
This week we discuss the Locky/FakeGlobe ransomware campaign, the moral quandary facing cyber criminals, and the worst celebrities to search for online – from a security point of view, that is Hello...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Deloitte and Equifax breaches
This week we discuss breaches at two huge organisations, and show why even the big guys still need to take care of basic information security practices. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast...
View ArticleWeekly Podcast: Every Yahoo! account breached, Equifax update, Conservative...
This week, we discuss 3 billion compromised Yahoo! accounts, the latest Equifax news, and Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s opinion of technology experts. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Accenture, Disqus and Equifax (yet again)
This week, we discuss the exposure of four unsecured Accenture servers to the Internet, how Disqus handled its data breach, and bad news for Equifax’s UK customers. Hello and welcome to the IT...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: WPA2 Krack attack, Iranian brute force, pizza and Microsoft
This week, we discuss the WPA2 protocol’s susceptibility to attack, claims that Iran subjected the UK’s parliamentary email system to a brute-force attack, breaches at pizza vendors, and an alleged...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Bad Rabbit, Kaspersky Lab and the Data Protection Bill
This week, we discuss a new strain of ransomware, Kaspersky’s new ‘comprehensive transparency initiative’, and the latest Data Protection Bill news. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Hilton breach, WordPress SQL injection and ICO helpline
This week, we discuss Hilton’s settlement following breaches in 2014 and 2015, an important WordPress update that fixes a SQL injection vulnerability, and a new phone service to help small organsations...
View ArticleWeekly Podcast: Ethereum, Maersk, Paradise Papers, Yahoo and Equifax (yet again)
This week, we discuss a vulnerability that’s caused $280 million of the cryptocurrency Ethereum to be frozen, the cost of NotPetya to AP Moller-Maersk, the data breach at law firm Appleby, and the...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Jewson, Huddle, Equifax (yet again)
This week, we discuss security breaches at Jewson and Huddle, and Equifax’s post-breach losses. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 17 November 2017. Here are this week’s...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Uber, Tether, Bitcoin and Western Union
This week, we discuss Uber’s cover-up of a 2016 breach that compromised 57 million drivers’ and customers’ personal information, the theft of almost $31 million worth of USDT and more than €100,000...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Imgur, Uber (again), Apple vulnerability, NHS Digital
This week, we discuss a data breach affecting 1.7 million Imgur users, the 2.7 million UK victims of the Uber breach, a major security flaw in macOS High Sierra, and a new investment in data security...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: A recap of the top stories of 2017 and a look ahead to 2018
This week, we look back at the big news from last year, and consider what the next 12 months have in store Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2018. Happy new year. As it’s the...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Carphone Warehouse, USB drives, VTech and Patch Tuesday
This week, we discuss a £400,000 ICO fine for Carphone Warehouse, an unfortunate prize from Taiwan’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, a $650,000 FTC settlement for VTech and the highlights of this...
View ArticleWeekly podcast: Meltdown and Spectre SCADA problems, Apple text bomb and WEF...
This week, we discuss further problems caused by patches for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, a text bomb that crashes Apple devices and the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2018....
View ArticleWeekly podcast: major cyber attacks on UK likely, Trump malware, and more...
This week, we discuss Norton’s new Cyber Security Insights Report, the inevitability of a category one cyber attack on the UK, unofficial PDFs of Fire and Fury spreading malware, and further fallout...
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