UK.biz is still clueless at fending off malware attacks, says survey Two-thirds of large UK businesses were hit by a cyber breach or attack in the past year, according to a UK government-sponsored survey. Nearly seven out of 10 attacks on all firms involved viruses, spyware or malware according to a poll of UK enterprises carried out as part of the Cyber Security Breaches Survey. Following the …
which was launched following the TalkTalk cyber attack
Which one?
It would help if we had regulators that actually enforced the law rather than try and find excuses for the mistakes. Talk Talk for example has had problems more than once, but they have yet to face any serious sanction as a result of this.
With that sort of lack of action from the government it's hardly surprising that so many companies choose to do as little as possible. It's probably the cheaper of the two options, even with all those breaches (many of which I would wager the public are never told about).
No, this should not be a case of "should" it needs to be a case of "must or else..."
I'm not a fan at all of government intervention in private commerce but when it comes to the safety of data of customers and employees there needs to be a minimum mandated requirement for infosec or no data handling privs for you, Corporation X.
and are we surprised!?
We got this email a few weeks ago, not all users got it but we know of at least 3 who did AND who clicked on it! The mind boggles!!!!!!!
From: Lori E. Rahrle [mailto:lrahrle@wittenberg.edu]
Sent: 18 April 2016 16:36
To: Lori E. Rahrle
Subject: RE: Administrator
IT administrator today upgraded all mailboxes (size up to 15.0GB). Please upgrade your account by clicking the following link: IT ADMINISTRATOR
It's well over two years since El Reg reported on the continuing hacks into NHS websites to promote the Online Canadian Pharmacy and other vendors of viagra and similar drugs. Adverts with links to suppliers of counterfeit handbags, jackets, shoes and sunglasses also seem to be popular.
A quick search for [site:gov.uk paypal viagra] brings up a similar selection of vendors.
A paranoid interpretation might be that these are allowed to pass as part of complex honeypot which is guarding the UK and providing leads on the villains who are intent on infiltrating the government's cyber infrastructure. The simpler explanation seems rather more likely.
The attitude to IT sucks in the UK. My UK clients are the most arrogant about everything. They seem to believe that they are paying you so no matter how stupid their request or their thought process you have to acquiesce.
I have been told to turn off hardware firewalls to live gambling websites before now. Told to roll back the removal of a remote exploit from a wordpress site because the owner didn't see anything different.... he did when that exploit phoned home !!! and a literny of other situations where i have had to say "Please don't do that, it will not end well".
I don't reside in the UK and try very hard to avoid working with business people there, they cannot be told about IT. There is still people there who revel in their non-IT literate state!!!
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