Then check out this short video from BBC News: What is ransomware and how does it work? – BBC News
More cyber attacks targeted at Ukraine citizens and organisations
There are more reports from the Ukraine about cyber attacks it is suffering. Ukraine blames Belarus for PC-wiping malware attack • The Register
A little light holiday reading!
I am on leave/writing retreat at the moment and one of the things I like to do when away is read. Bruce Schneier’s blog put me on to this very interesting work. Bounty Everything by Ryan Ellis & Yuan Stevens – (datasociety.net) “Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug …
The easiest way for hackers to reach you – phishing email
WE all get it – spam email – there is so much of it that whole industries have been created to stop it and create it. There is so much of it, because phishing email is the easiest way for the bad actors to reach you! Here is an example …
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When you have found a “good” thing, why stop?
The log4j vulnerability and it’s associated attack vectors was always going to be major cybersecurity crisis – and of course once the bad actors knew about it they would expand their exploitation. This article on the SANS internet shows how initial attempts to mitigate the log4j issue are now being …
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