…but isn’t that what a scammer would say? Here is an interesting situation to start off the cyber news week. How do you convince people your official website and service is not a scam? The Government is constantly having to do this for their Household Response Service. UK gov keeps …
How important are patches and updates?
Very. Regular vendor updates to patch software flaws that could be or are being exploited by threat actors – such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – are essential to everyone’s cyber security. Google is going to issue updates for its Chrome browser weekly. Google to fight hackers with weekly Chrome security …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday
This morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues or absconders! Here is Microsoft’s detailed page on …
Ransomware will always be changing – so does your response
As cyber security professionals come to understand the current ransomware threat and vendors and MSPs provide services and training to deal with the threat – the threat actors will always change their tactics. Here is one of the latest – using torrents to extract data from compromised systems: Clop ransomware …
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Microsoft Office under attack… again…
So most organisations use Microsoft Office in some way. Even if it they do not use it, someone will email them a Word or Excel document. You cannot avoid it – even on a Mac or Linux computer. That makes it a juicy target for threat actors – there are …
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