Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month and that means our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. Our team will keep an eye on the reports for the next day or two to check …
I had to quote, Simon Sharwood, from The Register, as the headline for this article. He has written an excellent article on how organised threat actors keep records of who they have successfully attacked in the past, so they can go back and try again. Scammers double-dip by offering help …
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Just in case you thought because I have not been writing about it, that ransomware has gone away, threat actors have launched yet another version of everyone’s worse nightmare malware. New Eldorado ransomware targets Windows, VMware ESXi VMs (bleepingcomputer.com) Eldorado ransomware attacks and all the usual suspects, encrypting both Linux …
I have a history of science lesson for today’s “Because It’s Friday”. Roberta Angioi – a Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University – has an article on The Conversation discussing Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who was probably the worlds first documented chemist – she was formulating perfumes 3000 years ago, in …
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…then we should take notice. New Open SSH Vulnerability – Schneier on Security It is technical, if you do not understand if this impacts you then ask someone. regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server | Qualys Security Blog
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Having come back from a week’s holiday, I have been busy catching up, so this week the Wednesday Bit about reminding you about my collection of Back-to-Basics cyber security primers. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some cyber security training, whatever our level of expertise. The articles …
