Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is not something that most of us will have to defend against – but it reads like a classic 1960’s spy story. The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris | WIRED UK Do you want another cyber security story that reads like a 1960’s spy story – …
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I have written about how to defend your cybersecurity when your firewalls, anti-virus and other defences fail you:
When Boris Johnson’s UK government “got Brexit done”, a number of things were agreed upon as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol but British union leaders have been opposed to many of the planned checks of goods going from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland. As a result …
Continue reading “European Commission bans EU formal cooperation with UK on online data issues”
Research is showing that with Microsoft now blocking Office VBA macros from the internet, threat actors are moving to other attachments that can execute malicious instructions, such as Windows Shortcut .lnk, .iso and .rar. As Microsoft blocks Office macros, hackers find new attack vectors (bleepingcomputer.com) My advice: Make sure your …
Russia’s Rostelecom appears to have tried to route some of Apple’s network, via its servers. It did not go on for long as Apple engineers intervened. If you want to know how some users across the internet trying to connect to Apple services could have been directed to Rostelecom servers, …
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