The first article is about a Russian threat group – NoName057(16) – which has claimed it launched a number of DDoS attacks again UK local government websites: Pro-Russia hackers claim Greater Manchester council cyber attacks – BBC News The affected councils have reported that the functionality of their websites suffered …
Something a bit different
Johannes Ullrich who writes for Sans Internet Storm – I often quote his work here on Smart Thinking – lives in a part of America which recently has suffered several hurricanes. We talk about preparing for business continuity here – Johannes has written about it when you have to cope …
Spit Tester just changes their terms
I have helped organisations prepare for the worse with incident response and business continuity plans. I have however never suggested that post incident they should forcibly change their terms and conditions to avoid being sued! Following a breach that has exposed the data nearly seven million users, 23andMe is doing …
Let’s finish the week with ransomware
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
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 …
