Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is the classic way a hacker gets their payload into your business – send you a spreadsheet that needs your immediate attention. Include the password in the email, this makes it more likely for you to open the file – make it look official and your cyber security threat …
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With California, Colorado, Utah and Virginia, Connecticut is the fifth US State to introduce laws protecting user’s privacy. Connecticut becomes fifth state with data privacy law – The Record by Recorded Future
Research from the FBI shows how costly this type of cyber attack is to businesses: FBI: Business Email Compromise attacks led to more than $43 billion in losses since 2016 – The Record by Recorded Future At Smart Thinking and Octagon, we have had to investigate and deal with several …
F5 Releases Security Advisories Addressing Multiple Vulnerabilities | CISA Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR | CISA CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA F5 is a company supplying infrastructure performance and security services to companies – so if you use them, get reading. …
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Here is a privacy issue right out of fiction. You know, the movie where the hero sees a reflected detail in a photograph and then the techs clean up the indecipherable blur to reveal the villain. Well researchers have been able to get details from the reflections in people’s eyes, …
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