This is a weekly round-up of the articles from Smart Thinking Solutions, our specialist cybersecurity, governance and compliance web site.
The articles are mostly quick reads to give you an overview of the cybersecurity threat landscape facing businesses today, with links to the sources. Many of the posts have action points or top tips to help you navigate these threats to your organisations.
Sometimes they are just there to make you smile!
In a slow news week as we start the New Year – the headline is that the UK has a new Information Commissioner – however as he held a similar office in New Zealand we probably have a second-hand Information Commissioner!
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Because it’s Friday… Flash
Welcome to living in Gloucester
BBC tech review of 2021
Because it’s Friday – The hazards of working on Christmas Day
Notable malware of 2021 – is your scanner looking at the big files?
Log4j and open source software security – Google Cloud report
UK’s Defence Academy cyber-attacked
A malicious script that only one AV package detected!
DuckDuckGo – you probably have not heard of this search engine
There is a new UK Information Commissioner – John Edwards
Hackers reuse code as well
A specific but large target – but what does it do?
Do you want to disappear from the internet?
The US FTC and Log4j – get it fixed or else
