Weekly Threat Report 28th January 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report
I should have run this story on a Friday! Tech sniffer dogs
The discovery of data storage and communications devices can be critical in any cyber security investigation – now the Digital Investigations and Intelligence Unit. (DIIU) of Wiltshire police have Bonny and Dora. Wiltshire Police ‘Digi-dogs’ trained to sniff out technology – BBC News The dogs have been trained to sniff …
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Training is everything when it comes to phishing emails
Here is another example of a phishing attack, from SANS Internet Diary – although I am not sure the average user will know what to do with an ISO file? The attack is interesting as it uses Base 64 to obscure it from detection. Malicious ISO Embedded in an HTML …
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Get your Apple device updated now!
Updates and patches from software and hardware vendors are a key step in your cyber-security strategy – make sure you keep up to date. Today Apple is releasing a variety of updates across all of it’s devices and operating systems to address various security and privacy issues. Check your device …
Bug programmes are a key step in our cyber-security
I have previously written about bug bounty programmes – where software vendors will pay white-hat hackers for information about flaws in their software – so security steps, updates and patches can be released before the black-hat hackers can exploit them in the wild. A little light holiday reading! – Smart …
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