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!
A real mixed bag of things in my news this week. Among the posts we have some research from Microsoft about IoT, attacks on the software/code supply chain, cyber criminals threatened and even a cyber criminal caught.
The second Reith Lecture also features this week and there is a conspiracy theory to go with that story – or is it rather just a coincidence? You decide – the truth is out there…
On a more serious note take a look at the article on Stalkerware.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Normally I start this round-up with “Because it’s Friday” post – my news can seem like an unrelenting list of bad news and I like to start off with something lighter. But today, with many of us about to embark on a weekend of online shopping before Christmas, I thought I had better lead with some advice for better cyber security whilst shopping.