Anyone in business today and having anything to do with technology is very familiar with the acronym something-aaS – as-a-service. For smaller businesses it means we can access tools, systems and expertise that once were only available to businesses with the budget, infrastructure and pockets to support them. So we …
Medibank customers – the news just keeps getting worse
Hackers who breached the security at Medibank, one of the biggest health insurance companies in Australia, have released more personal information of Medibank’s clients online: Medibank prognosis gets worse after more patient data leaked • The Register
Google Chrome’s 9th zero-day vulnerability of 2022 now patched
Software is difficult and no matter how much vendors test, both black and white hackers will find vulnerabilities once the software has been released. The issue is how fast does the vendor respond with patches once a vulnerability has been found. Google Chrome emergency update fixes 9th zero-day of the …
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Cyber Insurance
I am often asked to give my opinion about cyber insurance, including looking over insurance schedules for clients. Most times it takes a call to the broker to determine exactly what is, and what is not covered – many policies are now excluding fallout ransomware attacks due to the Russian/Ukraine …
Cracking Ransomware Encryption
You should not rely on the technique in this article as your “ransomware recovery plan”: Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security If you read the article, you can see that breaking the ransomware encryption is not easy or guaranteed. Neither should you plan on paying up: …
