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Posted on 9 November 20214 March 2022

NCSC and the Labour Party – do you need an incident response plan?

loss of control

The Nation Cyber Security has an article about cyber-attacks can lead to the loss of control of your information. In the case of the Labour Party they have lost control of their member’s information because of a data breach at a third party they were doing business with. Weekly Threat …

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Posted on 8 November 20214 March 2022

National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report

Here is a link to the NCSC weekly threat report for week ending 05/11/2021: Weekly Threat Report 5th November 2021 – NCSC.GOV.UK

Posted on 6 November 20216 November 2021

Reward offered for pipeline attackers

The US government has offered a reward up to $10million for information relating to the DarkSide hacking group that attacked US oil supply infrastructure in May 2021. US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers – BBC News However as these hackers are thought to be in Russia, even these …

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Posted on 5 November 20215 November 2021

Cisco admits to leaving a backdoor open

Cisco – a company that likes to remind us how much of their hardware makes up the infrastructure of the internet – has released a statement warning that an “unintentional debugging credential” has not been removed from some of their devices before they were sold. This affects devices found in …

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Posted on 4 November 20218 December 2022

Spyware Company added to trade blacklist

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 …

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