Before heading out of the office on leave, I wrote an article looking at “pay” or “not pay” the ransom:
Spyware is not an easy way to make a living…
…unless you are a company promising only to sell the spyware to approved governments and law enforcement. Australian spyware developer charged after 14,500 sales • The Register
Security patch round-up
Wired UK has an excellent article rounding-up the security updates across a range of products – our support team found it really useful – you might too. Apple Just Patched 39 iPhone Security Bugs—Update iOS ASAP | WIRED UK
It is your mistakes that the opportunistic threat actor is waiting for.
One of the things I cover with clients is misconfiguration of systems – small businesses (and sometimes large) often think they know what they are doing and so set hardware and software without experience. One example of this is the amount of reconfiguration our team has to carry out on …
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BreachForums is more popular than ever with threat actors
BreachForums is a site that shares stolen data between threat actors – and it is expanding mainly due to the “billion record Chinese hack” being shared there: Billion-record Chinese data leak’s host booms • The Register Don’t let your organisation’s information end up there!
