Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Why milk? The idea behind the “Because It’s Friday” series is as a relief to the stream of “bad news” cyber security posts that is the purpose of this news site. The stories could be funny, about technology or science fiction, often they are about space, or they are just …
I’m in. I have written about passwordlessness (I probably made that word up!) before. Eliminating the password makes it much harder for threat actors to compromise your security, exploit stolen credentials and gain unauthorised access to systems such as Microsoft and now Google: Google adds passkeys support for passwordless sign-in …
A while back Diana wrote a piece about the padlock in the URL bar of your browser and what it says about that sites security and means for your cyber security: Is that website secure? However what that symbol means in effect is that the communications between your device and …
…and a good news story about Facebook. The information stealing malware, NodeStealer spotted by the Facebook security team stealing Facebook user information and hijacking accounts – so they stepped in and blocked it. Facebook disrupts new NodeStealer information-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware exfiltrated session cookies from a range of the …
Continue reading “What to do if you think you have malware on you PC…”
In a forth coming article about our new Security Operations Centre (SOC-as-a-Service), I discuss the different between passive protection – which you must have – and reactive, continuous 24/7 Cyber Security Monitoring. This article from Bleeping Computer illustrates how threat actors carefully take apart the protection you are using to …
Continue reading “You have protection – hackers have evasion”
