Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Your website is often how the world, your clients, colleagues and suppliers view you. So why is it when I speak to many clients they are unsure about much of how their website functions or how it is looked after, except “possibly” who the developer is. Knowing the developer is …
In the case of Blackbaud $49.5million. This is the settlement agreed by the international software company for ransomware data breach, which exposed a raft of its clients sensitive and personal data. This included unencrypted banking information and login credentials. Blackbaud agrees to $49.5 million settlement for ransomware data breach (bleepingcomputer.com) …
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It is a while since I have written about the threat actors getting inside software repositories and infecting widely used software packages with malware. Subsequently these packages are then innocently used by web and software developers, infecting their work which is then passed onto the end client, potentially you. The …
From time to time various law enforcement agencies around the world make mistakes when it comes to technology. Confused investigation work leads to stories like this: Security researcher stopped at US border for investigating crypto scam (bleepingcomputer.com) Meanwhile the real cyber criminals are spending the funds from the crypto wallet …
Writing code for today’s sophisticated software is hard and no matter how careful the vendors are, how many beta and alpha testers they have, errors will always slip through. If those errors compromise the user’s security, you can bet a threat actor will discover them and exploit them. It is …
