Why does the Capita data breach have something to teach every organisation about cyber security? When a company has many clients for whom they do so many things, it stands to reason that threat actors will take an interest. One breach and the criminals get access to a wide range …
Another WordPress Vulnerability
WordPress is an extremely popular platform for producing web content – so threat actors are constantly probing it looking for gaps in the security. The popular plug-ins also make great targets because if their security fails the potential victims can number in the many thousands. Or millions. WordPress Elementor plugin …
Patch Outlook
Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for Outlook to protect from an exploit that could bypass a previous security patch. Microsoft patches bypass for recently fixed Outlook zero-click bug (bleepingcomputer.com) You need to check that the automatic updates have done their thing and applied this patch. If not get it …
Where am I today?
Edinburgh Napier University at The 6th International Conference on Big Data, Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure – not the snappiest of titles but it should be a good day. With the launch of our Security Operations Centre coming up I am particularly interested in the session that covers how a SOC …
Building on your BitLocker Cyber Security
A follow-on from last week’s article by Ben about Windows BitLocker encryption – BitLocker for Cyber Security. BitLocker for full disk encryption As Ben described, Windows BitLocker is a feature that encrypts your entire drive to protect your data from unauthorized access or theft. It is available on certain versions …
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