Sometimes, I manage to escape the office in Peterborough, jump on a train and attend Cyber Security conferences in London. This week was one of those weeks, with me spending all day on Thursday in Borough, just down from London Bridge.
London is by far one of my favourite cities to visit. As a child we would have family trips to London, especially at Christmas, so from an early age I got to know different parts of the city, and how to get across London on foot.
Today, i’m under an hour away on the train, and will quite often go down at a weekend just to be a tourist and wander around. It’s rare that i’ll know where I want to go, I just get off the train at Kings Cross and go exploring.
It’s rare to get good cloud formations over the Fens in the Winter unless there is a rainstorm or snowstorm on it’s way in.
Driving home tonight I noticed it was a great Winter sunset, with few clouds and the sky a wonderful orange colour. I drove out towards the Fens with a view of pulling over to get a photo of the sunset.
In 2016, Internet stalwarts Yahoo discovered a data breach from 2013 where the account details of potentially all THREE BILLION customers had been compromised. This was discovered whilst they were investigating the compromise of 500 MILLION accounts from a 2014 breach.
Did you know that one of the major sources of data breaches isn’t hackers, but it’s accidentally disclosing e-mail addresses. Under the new 2018 Data protection regulations, an e-mail address is considered Personal Identifiable Information, and therefore covered by the UK Data Protect Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).
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