Security: British Dependence on Microsoft and Ransom
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Cyberattack on UK parliament exploited weak email passwords
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UK energy industry cyber-attack fears are 'off the scale'
One obvious target is the smart meters that are being installed in every home by the end of 2020, to automate meter readings. The Capita-run body set up to handle the data, the DCC, is being treated as critical national infrastructure and the company’s chief technology officer insists the data is safe.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth is 'running outdated Windows XP', raising cyber attack fears [Ed: All versions of Windows are not secure. By design! iophk: "nearly all of the Wannacry victims were Vista 7 users, this article is pure disinformation"]
Fears have been raised that Britain’s largest ever warship could be vulnerable to cyber attacks after it emerged it appears to be running the outdated Microsoft Windows XP.
As HMS Queen Elizabeth left its dockyard for the first time to begin sea trials, it was revealed the £3.5billion aircraft carrier is apparently using the same software that left the NHS exposed.
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Paying only encourages criminals, ransomware victims told
Security company Kaspersky Lab has urged victims of ransomware not to pay when they are caught with their files encrypted by an attack. In a report on the ransomware scourge, the company said paying up would make one a bigger target the next time around.
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