Our security expert in the IT department made a security announcement last week:
“Due to the growing tensions in Ukraine, it is not surprising that the UK may be subjected to increased cyber-attacks”
Security Expert
When I started reading this, I’m thinking “why is it not surprising that we would have increased cyber-attacks?“; it is written like it is stating the obvious, but why are we under threat? My immediate thought is that Russians aren’t able to tell the difference between the UK and Ukraine. I mean, they do sound kinda similar.😁
So I read on, and I was a bit confused when the following paragraph goes on to say “whilst there is no specific current threat to UK organisations…“. I guess the keyword is “specific“, because much later in the post, he finally clarifies what he means. He was referring to the usual phishing attacks and donation scams. For example: emails asking for donations to help Ukraine, and you could be likely to click links and hand over cash for a worthy cause; but you will be handing money to criminals.
So it will be true that there’s more “cyber-attacks” across the world, so no idea why he mentioned the UK then had to clarify that it wasn’t specifically the UK in the very next paragraph.
He also wrote
“instructions have been issued to all areas of the business to bolster their cyber security measures”.
Security Expert
I find this a bit of a nonsense statement really; shouldn’t we already have max security? After all, just like he also states: “We take data security very seriously and it requires all of us to play our part.“
So are we at our most secure or not? It makes me think that we aren’t. Anyway, after instructing everyone to be suspicious of clicking links, he then provides some links for us to click to find out more.
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