This not not good reading – an increase in ransomware attacks: March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway is – you need a plan for ransomware! If you’d like a little help with this have a look at my recent mini-series on ransomware: Ransomware – …
Capita – data was stolen
This is a follow-up to an earlier story I wrote about a cyber security incident at Capita – the UK’s largest outsourcing company. An attack that is believed to have started with compromised credentials: Capita confirms hackers stole data in recent cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that credential …
CISA security advisories
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has joined with the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI and US National Security Agency (NSA) to issue a security advisory about vulnerabilities in Cisco devices: APT28 Exploits Known Vulnerability To Carry Out Reconnaissance and Deploy Malware on Cisco Routers | …
NCSC report on commercial cyber attacks
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a report looking at the increase in commercial cyber tools and services. The threat from commercial cyber proliferation – NCSC.GOV.UK It looks at how easy it is now for relatively low skilled threat actors to access sophisticated malware and deploy these attack …
Business continuity – Cyber breaches take time to fix
Why is a business continuity plan a good idea? Here’s why -the Acro Criminal Records Office is still facing disruption following the cyber security breach last month. Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack – BBC News Your takeaway from this is that a well funded government resource …
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