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The risk of ransomware attacks - are governments taking them seriously?
A report out this week by the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy in the UK claims that because of the British government’s failures to tackle ransomware, there is a “high risk” the country faces a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment.” We discuss whether governments at all levels - national or local – are doing enough to protect themselves against these types of attack, and what happens when defences are breached? Also, how can we protect our data online - top tips from our studio expert.

Keeping our data for future generations - will our archiving stand the test of time? 
IT technology journalist and new media pioneer Bill Thompson joins us to answer a listener’s question. Sam Quinn asks "having recently returned from an amazing holiday in Egypt and Jordan, and seeing the ‘data’ left from people living thousands of years ago, I’d love to hear how data from the current days, held on magnetic media will survive well into the future (given I can’t even play VHS tapes any more!)." 
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Ghislaine Boddington. 
 
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More on this week's stories: 
UK at high risk of catastrophic ransomware attack report say
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/13/uk-at-high-risk-of-catastrophic-ransomware-attack-report-says 
 
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