I have written about the controversial, commercially available, spyware Pegasus a number of times: Pegasus – Smart Thinking Solutions Frank Gardner, the BBC’s respected security correspondent refers to the Pegasus software as military grade spyware. Now the company behind the software, NSO Group of Israel, has now been added the …
Labour Party membership data compromised
The National Crime Agency, the Information Commissioner’s Office and National Cyber Security Centre are investigating an incident involving the membership data of the Labour Party. Labour Party members’ data hit by cyber incident – BBC News The scale of the breach and the third party that has been breached has …
Fake students
Bruce Schneier has an interesting article today about impersonation. In this case it is bad actors abusing havard.edu email addresses. Using Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands – Schneier on Security Impersonation is a real threat to any business, that does not have clear policies and procedures, and clear lines …
Apple Updates again
It is often said, by myself and other computer and security professionals that you need to update your hardware and software with the latest patches when they are addressing security vulnerabilities. However The Register is reporting that the update can brick some Apple computers: Apple’s macOS Monterey update breaks some …
Hiding the threat in plain sight
Attackers are always looking for new way to get their illicit packages through defences and this research paper outlines how by exploiting Unicode, malicious code can be written into software so that human code reviewers cannot recognise that it is there. Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities “This work has been under …
