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AI Harvesting Personal Data
A recent AI trend is the creation of personalised doll images. On the surface this is a fun spin off of AI although some …
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The Ransomware Task Force
An International strategy to combat Ransomware Kindus has previously discussed the issues of Ransomware in 2018 and 2020. In 2021 the USA based Institute …
SMS Delivery Scams
SMS Delivery Scams Bogus missed delivery texts and emails can be used to harvest personal data and lead to fraudulent bank transactions COVID lockdowns …
Cloud Outage Risk Mitigation
All Our Eggs In One Basket? The Fastly outage of 8th June 2021 was a wake up call on the risks of relying on …
The Risk Register
Evaluating and tracking security risks and remediations As COVID 19 restrictions are relaxed organisations need to analyse the risks in the way individuals meet …
The Impact of GDPR
The UK adopted GDPR legislation as law in 2018. How effective has it been? Although Brexit has come and gone GDPR is still in …
Mobile Device Management
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has become MDM (Mobile Device Management). Within a corporate environment users will want to have access to phones and …
Bug Bounty Hacking
Hacking of a security system is a criminal offence. The activity only exists because vulnerabilities still exist in computer systems. It is virtually impossible …
Amazon S3 Security (Simple Storage Service)
Infosecurity magazine reported that in December 2020 a Californian telemarketing company had exposed over 114,000 files of data stored on Amazon S3. This data …
E-Signatures in Regulated Industries
In a regulated industry like the life sciences, signatures carry a lot of weight. For example approving the release of medicines, new manufacturing contracts, …
Lockdown Cybercrime Data In The UK
UK government data shows how computer crime and fraud in general has affected us during COVID and the related lockdown. The Office For National …
Remote Working And Cybersecurity Risks In A Post COVID-19 World
COVID-19 has proved to be the Waterloo of many businesses globally. However, the industry has been quick to respond. The pandemic has triggered a …
Are you delivering Information Security training and awareness effectively?
The most effective way to minimise breaches of information security is to maximise staff awareness of risks and to promote good working practice. The …
COVID-19 Cyber Threat Awareness
Cyber criminals are exploiting COVID-19 The impact of COVID-19 on our way of life has been unprecedented. For the cyber criminal it has been …
Increasing the UK’s cyber security capability
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released a Call for Views which looks at ways to increase the UK’s cyber security capability. The …
Facebook hit with fresh privacy complaints
Once again, Facebook has been in the news for how it handles users’ privacy. Facebook has been put under more pressure in recent days …
Google fined for breaking GDPR rules
Find out why Google was fined for allegedly breaking GDPR rules. We are now approaching almost eight months since GDPR was first implemented into …
The ongoing threat of ransomware
The National Crime Security Centre (NCSC) gives some detail on the ways ransomware is increasing in sophistication and scope. The National Cyber Security Centre …
Morrisons data leak – the implications
The recent story surrounding the Morrisons data leak has important implications for the way organisations deal with personal data. Recent developments in the Morrisons …
Virgin Media – An Important Lesson
Kindus explains how you can mitigate the effects of an Internet outage Yet again we have seen another major technology meltdown. This time it …
The evolution of automation
Kindus explores how Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is changing the way we work. One of the most exciting innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is …
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