Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Lawrence Abrams has a good article on Bleeping Computer reminding us all that ransomware is still a major cyber security threat for everyone. The Week in Ransomware – August 18th 2023 – LockBit on Thin Ice The article goes into explain that the “successful” ransomware gang LockBit are having difficulties …
There is some good news from the recent data breaches at the Police Service of Northern Ireland. A man has been found in possession some of the stolen data and has been charged with the serious offences relating to terrorism. PSNI data breach: Man charged over documents linked to FoI …
Before we start go to your LinkedIn account now and check: Threat actors are hacking into and taking over LinkedIn accounts by apparently using the simplest of hacks – brute-forcing or using leaked credentials. LinkedIn and Microsoft are not helping the situation by dragging their feet and being “out of …
The police forces of Norfolk and Suffolk have reported errors with the information they released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, processed between April 2021 and March 2022. You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak – The …
In many cases the threat actors exploit a weakness in software you are using, This is what has happened in the case of the Clop ransomware gang, the flawed MOVEit software and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing: Colorado warns 4 million of data stolen in IBM …
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