I was reading about the hack of the international telecoms giant AT&T last week, but I noticed the headline of this article about it on the BBC today, that clearly sums up the hack. Hackers steal call records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers – BBC It is the ‘nearly all’ …
How much internet traffic is malicious?
Cloudflare, a company best known for protecting clients from various flavours of denial of service attacks, has done the research and calculated that 6.8% of all internet traffic is out to get you. This is an increase of last year’s findings. Application Security report: 2024 update – Cloudflare Cloudflare believes …
Encryption
For today’s Wednesday Bit, I want to rerun an article I first published in November last year. I was reminded about my article on encryption for two reasons… One of my current IT and Cyber Security Audits has highlighted an issue where very sensitive information is being shared in a …
Threat actors treat their crimes as a business
It is “old news” but threat actors are usually only in it for the money. Consequently to maximise their profits they turn to the tactics of legitimate businesses, with mission statements, support teams, easy terms and now rebranding! SEXi ransomware rebrands to APT INC, continues VMware ESXi attacks – BleepingComputer …
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When cyber security patching goes wrong!
Before I start this post let me make this very clear – you have to run the patches and updates for your systems as soon as they become available to keep your organisation secure. But sometime those updates can cause more problems – as in the case of some Windows …
