Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is understood to have been suffering a advanced persistent threat (APT) compromising the internal networks. US federal agency compromised in suspected APT attack – The Record by Recorded Future This agency has a role in shaping US government policy when it …
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There is a website where you can check if your password has been compromised – yes really. It does sound like a scam to harvest unsuspecting users passwords, but no. The website https://haveibeenpwned.com/ has built a reputation as a useful cyber security tool. Now the UK National Crime Agency has …
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Sainsbury’s payroll hit by Kronos attack – BBC News The payroll systems provider Kronos has been hit by a ransomware attack which has impacted a range of businesses here in the UK and the US. The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has reportedly lost a week of data relating to it’s 150.000 …
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A serious vulnerability in VMware has been discovered: VMSA-2021-0029 (vmware.com) As the article on The Register says “ignore this at your peril”. Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to fix • The Register
Contact forms are everywhere – no one puts email addresses on website because “people” just harvest those for spam/phishing campaigns – we have a contact form on this site. Here is a description on the SANS Internet Storm Diary explaining how these scam attacks are carried. It is not very …
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