Here are a couple of stories showing that ransomware hits large and small organisations: Luxembourg energy companies struggling with alleged ransomware attack, data breach – The Record by Recorded Future At least 34 healthcare orgs affected by alleged ransomware attack on OneTouchPoint – The Record by Recorded Future The Bromford …
Seasonal article over on CyberAwake
With the holiday season well underway, I thought we would take a look at the cyber security implications of the Out-of-Office notification:
Long term firmware compromise
This is an article looking at the invisible threat in our hardware – UEFI rootkit attacks. Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us | Ars Technica
If a software attack will not work – get out the wire cutters
This is not something that most of us will have to defend against – but it reads like a classic 1960’s spy story. The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris | WIRED UK Do you want another cyber security story that reads like a 1960’s spy story – …
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Because It’s Friday – how old are deepfakes?
There is plenty of news around about deep fakes – we have all seen the fake videos of various politicians and celebrities saying things they never would. But when was the first deep fake carried out: xkcd: Deepfakes Here is a deepfake from the past that made the news: Piltdown …
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