This article by Oli Buckley, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of East Anglia and Jason Nurse, Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent takes a balanced look at how AI is starting to help threat actors create more believable attacks. Cybercriminals are creating their own …
Because It’s Friday – Mixing Valentine’s Day and Viruses!
Like an aging film star the computer virus has a number of birthdays – here is one of them: Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really) – SANS Internet Storm Center This article also includes the fact that the computer virus is dead! Although you still need …
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Ransomware payments
I have written about ransomware payments dropping – here – but this report from Chainalysis shows that ransomware payments reached a new record in 2023: Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023 (chainalysis.com) It looks like victims just saying “no”, the dismantling of various ransomware gangs and their infrastructure, among other …
Talk! Talk! Cyber Security Awareness
For those of you who read Smart Thinking regularly, you will realise that this “Wednesday Bit” has been published a day late – the reason was a Cyber Security Awareness talk I gave yesterday at the East Lincs Expo. I delayed publishing, rather than writing an article and leaving it …
The truth about keyloggers and how easy it is to get the unwary to download one…
This is an excellent article by Xavier Mertens, with a video that demonstrates how a keylogger on your computer will defeat even the most complex of passwords. A Python MP3 Player with Builtin Keylogger Capability – SANS Internet Storm Center Your takeaway from this Have a policy in place stating …
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