Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have written about three of the ways ransomware hackers can extort you in my Ransomware Primer Mini-Series: Now the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has come up with yet another method to get organisations to pay their ransoms. In the US there is a legal obligation for publicly traded companies to …
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…it is all the same. In case you have been under a stone forever, ransomware is probably one of the most circulated bits of malware out there and if you get hit with it there will be serious consequences for your organisation. It doesn’t matter whether you were the deliberate …
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Do you have a ransomware plan? If not here is a thought… I am sure the world’s largest commercial bank had/has a ransomware, incident response and business continuity plan – and they need it: World’s largest commercial bank ICBC confirms ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) I am also sure they had plenty …
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …
Microsoft is going to automatically deploy a policy for many of it’s customers that will make it mandatory for administrator users to use MFA. Microsoft will roll out MFA-enforcing policies for admin portal access (bleepingcomputer.com) Of course the admins could turn this policy off – but why would they? Watch …
