Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It’s back on… Due to circumstances beyond everyone’s control our cyber security webinar had to be postponed. For those of you who put the time by for the event we are sorry and look forward to meeting with you at this new event. For those of you who did not …
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“Because It’s Friday”, something to ease you into the weekend, after a week of “bad” cyber security news. This week something quick from Randall Munroe. Scary Triangles – xkcd Have a good weekend – I am spending mine building IKEA furniture! Clive Photo by Adrien Olichon
…but a North Korean threat actor group had and they hijacked the update process to inject malware into the “protected” systems. Researchers at Avast believe the group is the North Korean APT group Kimsuki. The malware installs GuptiMiner – a crypto-miner – and disables several other security precautions if they …
Here are a couple of examples from the recent cyber-tech press of examples of software vulnerabilities that need patching… Promptly! Microsoft releases Exchange hotfixes for security update issues – BleepingComputer ArcaneDoor hackers exploit Cisco zero-days to breach govt networks – BleepingComputer The first illustrates that management is needed as not …
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been writing a short series looking at the basics of encryption, how you can use it to improve your cyber security and some of the issues you need to address if you are using it. As I have done with other mini-series …
Even though the US National Security Agency (NSA) reported this flaw to Microsoft and they patched it in their October 2022 Patch Tuesday, the threat group APT28 is still exploiting it. Microsoft: APT28 hackers exploit Windows flaw reported by NSA – BleepingComputer The Russian threat group uses a hacking tool …
Modern cyber security tools are well within the budget of even the smallest organisations- even one person businesses. We have a webinar this week to tell you how. This article will give you some background it includes a link to sign up for either the webinar or to get the …
I am never popular when I am helping organisations create cyber security plans and I insist that company laptops are only for company business. This applies double when the laptop is used at home or on holiday – you cannot let your significant other or others use the company computer. …
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