As parts of the world return to something resembling normality, post-pandemic, as individuals, employers and employees, we are all being urged to take cyber security more seriously. But why? To put it mildly, ransomware attacks are a serious threat to both national security and economic stability and failure to take action can have very serious […]
4 New Square chambers, which was recently hit hit by a ransomware attack, has obtained a privacy injunction from the High Court demanding that the person or persons “responsible for engaging in a cyber-attack on [the barristers] on or about 12 June 2021 and/or who is threatening to release the information thereby obtained” do not […]
Preventative measures to help ensure your business is protected from ransomware attacks In May, the Colonial Pipeline operation that carries almost half of the diesel, petrol and jet fuel used on the east coast of the United States was held to ransom for almost a week by cyber criminals. Colonial paid $4.4 million to the […]
Ransomware is the online threat that most concerns GCHQ and we all need to take it more seriously and take steps to defend ourselves against the “cumulative effect” of being victims. So says the CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Lindy Cameron. “These criminals don’t exist in a vacuum. They are often enabled […]
We all know that cyber attacks can be costly and dangerous for businesses and most companies take steps to head them off. But what do you do if you’re repelling lots of cyberattacks every day? Like 15.5 billion a day? That’s what American pharma giant Johnson & Johnson has had to contend with recently. In […]
A new AI-driven service called Deep Nostalgia from online genealogy company MyHeritage and using technology licensed from Israeli firm D-ID can animates portrait photos to create passable but fairly creepy fake video clips. It uses pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and applies the one that best suits the image being manipulated. Users upload a […]