Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is a non-technical article from our General Manager looking at the impact of ransomware on organisations. Who pays, how much time and money is lost, who goes bust and who has a plan in place to deal with it?
This is a ransomware encryption attack, that Octagon’s backup solution is designed to mitigate against. The attack exploits the Microsoft 365 versioning feature, when editing a file, saved in SharePoint or OneDrive. Once the threat actors gets into the cloud storage they can execute their attack and start encrypting your …
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Network Attached Storage, or NAS devices are still a popular storage solution for organisations, even if they also use other cloud solutions. Octagon Technology still uses NAS devices as part of our disaster recovery/incident response planning. The use and reach across an organisation’s network that NAS devices have, make them …
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Vendors put a lot of effort into keeping their software secure from hackable vulnerabilities, with patches and updates, but the threat actors never give up looking. Here is an instance of an old vulnerability in Apple’s Safari web browser coming back: Refactoring code in WebKit resurrected ‘zombie’ security bug • …
Continue reading “Vulnerabilities, come, get fixed, go and come back…”
I have just written this article, showing that more than 24billion stolen credentials are available for sale on the dark web: Now here is a voice mail phishing attack that is designed to steal your Microsoft credentials – so they can join the other 24 billion on the Dark Web: …
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