Opinion – Davey Winder

Beware the ever-evolving ransomware cybercrime tsunami

Ransomware operators manage to out-scumbag themselves by targeting healthcare providers during a pandemic – here’s what you need to know

July 3, 2019 Davey Winder 946 Views NHS, Opinion, people

Isn’t it about time that we stopped blaming employees for cybersecurity incidents and started to believe in people power instead?

Kudos to Europol for taking down the biggest DDoS-for-hire network, but please don’t think that’s the DDoS problem solved folks…

The top vulnerability remains ‘injection’ and cross site scripting (XSS) is still there, four years on from the last update!

Google research looked into root cause (pun intended) of account takeovers, good job. But is ranking threats a bad idea?

The 2016 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) statistics are in and don’t make great reading for Google. Or do they?

Forensic investigators have discovered a billion more Yahoo accounts have been hacked! What does the security industry think about that?

The NHS is not only a ransomware target, but it’s fallen victim multiple times over the last year or so.

Healthcare IT is expected to work hard for a long time, and that’s really not good for keeping security healthy