This is a really interesting blog from Microsoft examining cyber crime from the prospective of a law abiding real world economic model: Ransomware-as-a-service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy and how to protect yourself – Microsoft Security Blog Cyber-gangs have been shaping themselves as real businesses for a while, with business …
Because It’s Friday – The End of an Era
The iPod is no more… Twenty-one years after Steve Jobs announced the iconic product to the world, this week Apple announced it was discontunuing production of the current model – the iPod Touch – with no plans to replace it. The iPod was to revolutionise how we consumed music and …
More metrics for cyber crimes in the US
President Biden has signed a bill that will charge various departments of the US Government to create a taxonomy for cyber crimes and to analyse and publish these results. Other measurements for responses and effectiveness of cyber security responses will be collected, published and acted on. If cyber crime, the …
CISA security advisory from Microsoft for various Azure products.
Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines | CISA These are enterprise products – but you know the drill:
With a title that includes “Bond Villains” you cannot possibly miss reading this…
A few weeks ago I ran a post that pointed at an excellent article in the New Yorker magazine looking inside the world of the NSO Group the developers of Pegasus. Pegasus is a commercially available spyware cyber-weapon. Inside a commercial spyware company – Smart Thinking Solutions The Canadian research …
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