Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is a great weekend read, which I found very interesting: It is an excellent article by Morgan Meaker at Wired UK, examining the apparent plague of spyware, being discovered on the smartphones of activists, journalists and politicians, across Europe Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe | WIRED UK All …
I have been away for a couple of weeks and on my return I caught up with what Randall Munroe has been publishing on xkcd.com. I found a few that I just had to include here… Holiday WiFi When we get to our time-share in Aviemore, one of the first …
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It was a prank, but it was also serious hacking. The only thing that stopped it being a criminal case was that the school IT support had not reset default passwords and if they did they used the example password in the manual and that the hackers acted in a …
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Here are some of the leading ransomware stories this week: Greek natural gas operator suffers ransomware-related data breach – Bleeping Computers LockBit ransomware group implicated in crippling attack on French hospital – The Record by Recorded Future New ‘Donut Leaks’ extortion gang linked to recent ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) RansomEXX claims …
Continue reading “Ransomware this week… with an international flavour and some advice.”
We cannot emphasise how important multi-factor authentication is to your cyber security – however, of course, the threat actors do have ways around it: Cookie stealing: the new perimeter bypass – Sophos News The threat is malware getting into your system and stealing session cookies that are associated with the …
