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20 new website security tips just added to the Security Guide

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See: https://www.datasecurityexpert.co.uk/it-security-guide/the-guide/websites.html.

How the Daily Express accidentally DDoS’ed a small Limerick based design agency (again!*)

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

This is a follow up from “DNS is the backbone of the internet, get it wrong and it can cause serious problems - just look at the Daily Express website”. On Tuesday this week I visited the Daily Express by typing in it’s address manually not using a search engine. A search engine would take you to www.express.co.uk but enter it manually and you go to http://express.co.uk.

As covered last time the www A record sends you to www.express.co.uk and the @ A record sends you to http://express.co.uk. On entering http://express.co.uk on Tuesday I ended up at www.bluechief.ie. Both Blue Chief and the newspaper use Dublin. AWS for their hosting. I tweeted to Blue Chief and The Daily Express, and emailed The Daily Express on the same day of discovering the issue.

Cyber risks are too often ignored by management

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Project Managers and top management need a better security understanding to allocate resources and to sign off technical risks.

Over the years I have worked across various sectors, from single-person companies to giant central government departments and publicly-known FTSE 100 corporations. The one thing all have in common is poor security processes, little interest and very basic understanding of security controls, risks and threats.