Archive for May 2017
Your PC taken hostage
As with any hostage situation, there is no guarantee that by paying the ransom, you will be granted access to your PC; by paying on time, you may be able to access your files again. Missing the deadline could result in the ransom amount increasing or all of your files being deleted or released into the public domain.
Read MorePersonal Cyber Hygiene
The Office for National Statistics estimates that there were 2.46 million cyber incidents and 2.11 million victims of cyber crime in the UK in 2015. There are simple ways to improve the security of your personal data and that of your business, from the mouth of industry and government experts.
Read MoreDecrypting the encryption debate.
As the encryption-security-privacy saga continues into 2017, more actors and cases will bring this subject to head.
Read MoreRisk in the Internet of Things
By Oliver Yule-Smith. Much of the current excitement on the Internet of Things (IoT) revolves around a focus on how we as individuals increasingly embed the use of internet-dependent devices to make our lives easier. However, there is a much more prevalent, but less discussed of late, practice of using this same IoT to run…
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