The US government has offered a reward up to $10million for information relating to the DarkSide hacking group that attacked US oil supply infrastructure in May 2021. US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers – BBC News However as these hackers are thought to be in Russia, even these …
Cisco admits to leaving a backdoor open
Cisco – a company that likes to remind us how much of their hardware makes up the infrastructure of the internet – has released a statement warning that an “unintentional debugging credential” has not been removed from some of their devices before they were sold. This affects devices found in …
Because it is Friday… The Space Race
You cannot spend the week reading my articles about all the cybersecurity threats to your business and our society and not occasionally have something here to smile about. The Conversation has an interesting article, looking at the research that shows that the rivalry between the top people in Big Tech …
On the Octagon blog…
Diana has a new post on the Octagon blog today talking about the responsibilities companies have towards the environment and highlighting how 365R is part of Octagon’s response to reducing emissions. This article links back to an earlier article that I wrote about the new iPhone 13, the environmental impact …
Spyware Company added to trade blacklist
I have written about the controversial, commercially available, spyware Pegasus a number of times: Pegasus – Smart Thinking Solutions Frank Gardner, the BBC’s respected security correspondent refers to the Pegasus software as military grade spyware. Now the company behind the software, NSO Group of Israel, has now been added the …
