Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The National Cyber Security Centre are back with their weekly threat report – having had a week off for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Threat Report 10 June 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK However it does not mention the latest information on the Microsoft Word / msdt.exe / Follina zero-day cyber security risk:
The Emotet botnet started off as banking trojan then evolved into a spamming and malware delivery system, has now moved onto exfiltrating credit card data: Emotet malware gang shifts to stealing credit cards • The Register If you have your credit card details stored in your Google Chrome browser, the …
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I think the number is more than a quarter of the world’s population has a Facebook account, couple that with Meta’s international reputation for information security and ethics and so it is no surprise that it is a target for scammers and threat actors Facebook phishing campaign nets millions in …
This paper looks at how threat actors can manipulate and poison machine learning training, to twist the systems to their goals. The goals are achieved without impacting the integrity of the underlying data sets. Manipulating SGD with Data Ordering Attacks (arxiv.org) Shumailov, I., Shumaylov, Z., Kazhdan, D., Zhao, Y., Papernot, …
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I just have to quote Bruce Schneier here: Back in November 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I gave a virtual talk at the International Symposium on Technology and Society: “The Story of the Internet and How it Broke Bad: A Call for Public-Interest Technologists.” It was something …
