Pandora Event Bulletin: GDP@Risk in Houston
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The age of ransomware: mitigating the next cyber heartbreak after WannaCry
A cyber catastrophe has occurred. A little before noon on Friday, 12 May 2017, a highly virulent strain of the ransomware WannaCry (known as WannaCrypt) began to spread through Windows systems worldwide, crippling the NHS healthcare system, Russian government ministries … Continued
Cyber-extortionists take a bite at Apple – update
The Turkish Crime Family (TFC) versus Apple cyber extortion case is unique in being one of the first widely reported incidents of a large tech company being subjected to extortion. TCF claimed access to hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts, … Continued
Cyber-extortionists take a bite at Apple
On Friday April 7, a group of cybercriminals calling themselves the ‘Turkish Crime Family’ claim that they will wipe hundreds of millions of iCloud credentials, instantaneously rendering Apple users unable to play or purchase music, use apps, or access email … Continued
London keeps calm
The violent attack which occurred outside British Parliament and on Westminster Bridge on Wednesday, 22 March 2017, has thus far led to the deaths of six individuals and the further injury of more than 40 others. 24 hours after the … Continued
Lights out at Amazon
Tuesday, 28 February, saw “high error rates” in multiple AWS services in the US’ eastern region. These began in the S3 service provided by the US-East-1 North Virginia site before spreading to other services hosted by US-East-1 including CloudWatch, EC2, … Continued
Artificial Intelligence in the Not-So-Distant Future
The motto of the Tyrell Corporation – the corporation responsible for android production in Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner – is “more human than human”. As autonomous systems become increasingly ubiquitous and permanent fixtures in modern societies, there is … Continued
NSA cyber weapon stash for sale
Éireann LeverettRisk Researcher, Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, and CEO, Concinnity Dr Andrew CoburnSVP, RMS, Inc., and Director of Advisory Board, Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School On 13 … Continued
Analytics is integral to resilience and sustainability
(Photo credit: David Baron, Flickr Creative Commons) As the United States looks toward the next four years of presidential decision-making and economic policy, the federal capital has played host to the ongoing discussion on finding solutions to both social and … Continued
Is regulation of risk culture the missing piece?
Greater use of civil and administrative sanctions will steer good corporate behaviour more effectively than prescribed risk culture as a regulatory tool divorced from business relevance, say Dr Michelle Tuveson and Professor Danny Ralph, Directors of the Cambridge Centre for … Continued