It has emerged that senior executives at Microsoft had their emails hacked and monitored by Russian threat actors for nearly 2 months. Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers | Ars Technica The attack was not sophisticated. The threat actors – Midnight Blizzard – using nothing more than a …
Let’s start the week with a Mac attack
I wrote about an Apple Mac attack last week – Macs too… – and we are going to start the week off with a Mac attack. Let me just quote the article here: “Still today, many people think that Apple and its macOS are less targeted by malware. But the …
Because It’s Friday – The Information Superhighway
“The Information Superhighway”, that is a term I have not heard in a long time, but it came up in a BBC YouTube video I watched this week. “…every word ever written…” “…transform your home into a mammoth interactive entertainment centre…” “On something called the internet…” President Bill Clinton had …
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Credential Theft
If Have I Been Pwned have these credentials then you can bet that the threat actors have them as well. Have I Been Pwned adds 71 million emails from Naz.API stolen account list (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this It is important you and your team understand the importance of any …
More about passwords…
On Monday I ran a post about passkeys and the end of the password – but of course that is the future of cyber security, today we still depend on passwords. We all know a good password is a combination of upper and lower case letters with numbers and some …