Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Having written yesterday about why technical cyber security defences are essential but are flawed because of the human element can be exploited directly by social engineering, here is a costly real world example of social engineering working: North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency – Schneier on Security There is …
It is not unreasonable to say that ransomware is at epidemic levels, report after report says that malware, ransomware and cyber extortion is on the rise (Beaman, Barkworth, Akande, Hakak and Khan. 2021 and Oz, Aris, Levi and Uluagac. 2021), and that cyber security is important. We all take precautions …
…but a North Korean threat actor group had and they hijacked the update process to inject malware into the “protected” systems. Researchers at Avast believe the group is the North Korean APT group Kimsuki. The malware installs GuptiMiner – a crypto-miner – and disables several other security precautions if they …
Like an aging film star the computer virus has a number of birthdays – here is one of them: Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really) – SANS Internet Storm Center This article also includes the fact that the computer virus is dead! Although you still need …
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…in a game of course. Shall We Play a Game? – SANS Internet Storm Center There are hundreds of thousands of these free simple games available out there on the internet but some of them are not quite what you think they are. I am not against fun – especially …
