I recently wrote a mini-series of articles looking at various aspects of ransomware and what you need to do about it. Ransomware – A Primer – Smart Thinking Solutions That series mainly concentrated on encryption ransomware but the cyber gangs are also turning to extortion ransomware – so I wrote …
Outsourcing company for the MoD suffers a “cyber incident”
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …
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CISA Security Advisories – and why checking this post and software patching is important
CISA is the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a very good source cyber security and software patching information. Last week they posted several software patching updates and known vulnerabilities that are being exploited and mitigations for them. Samba Releases Security Updates for Multiple Versions of Samba | …
It is World Back-up Day
Happy World Back-up Day. Reminding people and organisations annually about backing-up is a good thing but you or someone should be thinking about your back-ups every day! Here is what I consider to be the minimum for a ransomware resilient back-up has to be: Following these guidelines for all your …
Available for sale – a toolkit to steal credentials
AlienFox is a malicious modular toolkit that threat actors can buy via a private Telegram channel. New AlienFox toolkit steals credentials for 18 cloud services (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware can be configured to scan for misconfigured servers and steal authentication details and credentials for a range of popular cloud-based services such …
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