Capita the largest business process outsourcing company in the UK was breached (read about that here). The company is now having to advise it’s clients that their data was stolen and personal data of their clients is in the hands of threat actors. Capita warns customers they should assume data …
The thing I hated from the conference last week
One of the speakers at the cyber security conference last week blamed the users when it came to cyber security. They also were concentrating on big business solutions when the most people work form small organisations. I never blame the users, I also will not get involved in a blame …
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Email Phishing is a constantly changing threat
One of the topics covered at the cyber security conference I was at last week was how AI tools such as ChatGPT are helping threat actors refine the social engineering messages that enable the success of an email phishing attack. Our Cyber Security Awareness Training still includes looking out for …
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Do you want to know more about writing a virus
This excellent article by Scott J Shapiro will not show you how to write a virus but it is about trying to track down one of the world’s most notorious malware authors. On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world | The Guardian …
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Another WordPress Vulnerability
WordPress is an extremely popular platform for producing web content – so threat actors are constantly probing it looking for gaps in the security. The popular plug-ins also make great targets because if their security fails the potential victims can number in the many thousands. Or millions. WordPress Elementor plugin …
