The Port of Tyne has confirmed it has been a victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attack. Port of Tyne website hit by cyber attack – BBC News Your takeaway This type of attack is mainly targeted to disrupt the operation of an organisation’s online services – denying access to …
Why Cyber Security Awareness Training is Importatnt?
Whatever technical defences you (and I) rely on, there is a probability that the threat actors will find ways to bypass them: Microsoft 365 anti-phishing feature can be bypassed with CSS (bleepingcomputer.com) If the phishing email gets as far as your team member’s inbox, they had better be able to …
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The Wednesday Bit – On Holiday
The Wednesday Bit is on its summer holidays at the moment, but here is an article that I thought was worth reminding you about. Planning and Preparation Your incident response plans do not need to be very complicated or long – they just need to cover what you need to …
Ransomware and The Paris Olympic Games
Following the sabotage on the French rail network on the eve of the Olympic Games in Paris, The Grand Palais Réunion des musées nationaux (Rmn) – the organisation that manages a number of the museums and cultural sites involved in the Olympics – reported that it suffered a ransomware cyber-attack. …
Telling tales
Bruse Schneier has a link to a new patent application that would enable one car to report another car to the authorities for a traffic violation. New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance – Schneier on Security
