There was an interesting article that attracted my attention in The Guardian, by John Naughton about Wernher von Braun, often called the “Father of the American Space Program”. For those of you that do not know it, von Braun and some other technicians who had worked with him on the …
CISA joint advisory on access control. Are you still missing MFA?
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a joint advisory with the cyber security organisations from the UK, New Zealand, Netherlands and Canada listing ten regularly exploited weak security controls, poor configurations, and bad practices that allow threat actors to compromise networks. Here is the article: Weak Security …
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“We will pay if hit by ransomware again”
If the ransomware gangs keep making large sums of money – easily – from attacking businesses, then they will continue sending out those phishing emails to organisations all round the world. Statistics like these do not help any of us: Most organizations hit by ransomware would pay if hit again …
The cyber crime gig economy
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 …