The Council has had to send out thousands of letter following being caught up in the security breach at Capita. Colchester City Council contacts 7,000 people after data hack – BBC News Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the country offering a wide range of services that businesses, organisations, …
The University of Manchester Hack
Some University of Manchester students and staff have been receiving emails, warning them that their personal information will soon be disclosed, because the University has not responded to the criminal’s demands. University of Manchester: Students and staff sent data leak threat – BBC News The students and staff number about …
The anatomy of a spear phishing attack
A spear phishing attack is a malicious email (usually) with content aimed to exploit the specific recipient. Yee Ching Tok, over on SANS Internet Storm has an excellent article taking apart a spear phishing email targeting YouTube content creators. Analyzing a YouTube Sponsorship Phishing Mail and Malware Targeting Content Creators …
The Zero-day Threat – What is it?
Do you know what a zero-day cyber security threat is? Maybe you do and maybe you don’t, but we are going to take a couple of articles to look at: What is the Zero-day Threat? The competition between the threat actors and the anti-virus and cyber security software vendors should …
ChatGPT and Cyber Security
The sale of credentials is a very active illicit market place. Now the cyber criminals are hoping that employees have shared organisational secrets with ChatGPT as compromised ChatGPT credentials are found for sale on the Dark Web. Trove of ChatGPT creds found on dark web • The Register Do you …
