Opinion
Lessons amid the breach
Jon Bentley urges a return to good old face-to-face communication to combat rising cybersecurity threats
What I found most striking about the high profile cyberattacks on retailers W M&S and the Co-op earlier this year was how worryingly easy they seem to have been. Such hacks are often credited in news reports as being ‘highly sophisticated’, conjuring up images of fiendishly clever programmers devising devastating malware on screens densely packed with fast-moving streams of green digits. The reality however seems to be anything but.