Cybersecurity Expert

Aside from Brexit, Cyber Threats and Cyber Attack accusations against Russia are very much on the centre stage of UK government's international political agenda at the moment.  The government publically accused Russia's military 'GRU' intelligence service of being behind four high-profile cyber-attacks , and named 12 cyber groups it said were associated with the GRU. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said, " the GRU had waged a campaign of indiscriminate and reckless cyber strikes that served no legitimate national security interest ". UK Police firmly believe the two men who carried out the Salisbury poisoning in March 2018 worked for the GRU. What is Russia's GRU Intelligence Agency? The risks of cyber-conflict with Russia Russia accused of net hack attacks Russian spy: What happened to the Skripals? The UK National Cyber Security Centre said it had assessed "with high confidence" that the GRU was "almost certainly responsible...

September 2018 started with a data breach bang, with  British Airways disclosing a significant hack and data loss . 380,000 of the airlines' website and mobile app customers had their debit and credit card details lifted via a maliciously injected script.  The breach even caused BA owners, IAG, to drop in value 4%. And to compound matters, there were several claims made that  the BA website wasn't PCI DSS compliant , implying if they were PCI DSS compliant, their customer's personal and payment card information would still be safe.  For further details about this breach see my blog posts;  British Airways Customer Data Stolen in Website and Mobile App Hack  and  British Airways Hack Update: Caused by Injected Script & PCI DSS Non-Compliance is Suspected . Facebook continues to make all the wrong kind of privacy headlines after a massive user data breach was confirmed by the social media giant at the end of the month. Facebook said at ...