Publishing a book during a global pandemic has been – like much else in life – a dizzying rollercoaster. Publicity strategies I’d been working on for months collapsed overnight. But there are always two sides to the coin: ON THE DOWN SIDE… The big conferences at which I’d planned to speak (and which provide a…
The UK Parliament’s Intelligence & Security Committee found “Russia has sought to employ organised crime groups to supplement its cyber skills” This is pivotal, as it makes attribution much, much harder. Using crime groups, or just co-opting their tools and software, makes it easier for states such as Russia to hide their cyber activities. It’s…
There was a predictably pusillanimous BBC interview by Security Minister James Brokenshire on Friday regarding allegations that Russian state hackers attacked companies working on coronavirus vaccines. Brokenshire didn’t name the companies involved, nor did he confirm whether the hacks were successful. This is pretty typical of cybersecurity announcements: they flag up the threat, and provide…
This is one of a series of personal blogs I’ve written about coronavirus. They are not a pieces of journalism, and are not like the investigative work I do for major publishers. They are my personal reflections, in attempt to make sense of the situation. I am, effectively, a small business dealing with coronavirus. I’m…
This is one of a series of personal blogs I’ve written about coronavirus. They are not a pieces of journalism, and are not like the investigative work I do for major publishers. They are my personal reflections, in attempt to make sense of the situation. Visiting the supermarket has become a bleak, tense experiment in…
Online advertising giants have promised to rein in the sharing of sensitive personal data for targeted ads, but some still doubt they can comply with tough new data protection rules. At a conference organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office this week, two of the biggest names in ad tech outlined moves to restrict the amount…
Ah, November 15th and the General Election advent calendar door opens to reveal… technology! Labour announced bold plans to nationalise part of BT and pump in £20bn to provide full fibre broadband free to every home and business in the UK by 2030. As usual, much of the coverage and interviews have focused on the…
If you’ve ever connected to a free WiFi hotspot (and that’s most of us), there was some worrying news from security researcher Charl van der Walt at SecureData’s UK Cyber Security Summit yesterday. You know the pop-up page that often appears asking you to enter an email address or a phone number before you can…
News that hackers successfully infected at least one computer inside an Indian nuclear power plant once again raise concerns about targeting of the energy sector by cyber means. In a terse statement, the government’s Nuclear Power Corporation of India acknowledged the attack, but downplayed its seriousness: “the infected PC belonged to a user who was…
There’s a welter of civic society groups that could be caught up in Twitter’s ban.
Geoff White 