Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was very popular, until it’s vulnerabilities came to light. It’s time to disconnect RDP from the internet | WeLiveSecurity Today Sans Internet Storm is reporting an increase in probes being initiated against RDP services – even though it is a well known weak service. Remote Desktop …
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Something simple for a weekend. I have been doing a lot reading lately for updating our email/phishing training and came across this list of scams that are used by cyber criminals. It is not complete! Old Scams Finding New Victims ✓ Advance fee schemes✓ Apartment deposit scams✓ Bitcoin scams✓ Bulk-mailing …
Some of the posts this week have dealt thinking about the risk to your organisations and how to assess that risk – but I do not want you worrying so here is something for you to start to understand risk: xkcd: Conditional Risk And from the Octagon Blog:
Microsoft has an article outline the activities of the hacking group Nobelium. “…we’re sharing the latest activity we’ve observed from the Russian nation-state actor Nobelium. This is the same actor behind the cyberattacks targeting SolarWinds customers in 2020…” New activity from Russian actor Nobelium – Microsoft On the Issues You …
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