Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is the classic way a hacker gets their payload into your business – send you a spreadsheet that needs your immediate attention. Include the password in the email, this makes it more likely for you to open the file – make it look official and your cyber security threat …
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Research from the FBI shows how costly this type of cyber attack is to businesses: FBI: Business Email Compromise attacks led to more than $43 billion in losses since 2016 – The Record by Recorded Future At Smart Thinking and Octagon, we have had to investigate and deal with several …
F5 Releases Security Advisories Addressing Multiple Vulnerabilities | CISA Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR | CISA CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA F5 is a company supplying infrastructure performance and security services to companies – so if you use them, get reading. …
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We live in a Microsoft world when it comes to business – and Microsoft Exchange, whether hosted or your own servers, by their very nature contain information that hacker love or are a way into an organisation. So they are always going to be a target: UNC3524: Eye Spy on …
Among the vendors using uClibc and the uClibc variant uClibc-ng are Linksys, Netgear, Axis and Gentoo an embedded Linux distribution. This page from Ars Technica has links to the impacted devices: Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw | Ars Technica Vendors were informed of …
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