Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the UK Government, the Ministry of Defence, local authorities and businesses. When Capita’s security was breached it was going to lead to an ever increasing list of victims as the investigation proceeded. Capita hack: 90 organisations …
PyPi software repository takes the most basic of security steps…
Having temporarily closed its doors last week to new business, PyPi – a python code repository – is now enforcing the most basic of cyber security precautions – 2FA! PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that any essential business service …
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The Capita Data Breach
Why does the Capita data breach have something to teach every organisation about cyber security? When a company has many clients for whom they do so many things, it stands to reason that threat actors will take an interest. One breach and the criminals get access to a wide range …
Stealing your data is a priority for threat actors
There is a highly completive market evolving to provide threat actors with malware that evades detection and then as quietly as possible exfiltrate sensitive data from the compromised system. This can include, cookies, session cookies, credentials, credit card and crypto-wallet data etc. The new info-stealing malware operations to watch out …
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Email Phishing is a constantly changing threat
One of the topics covered at the cyber security conference I was at last week was how AI tools such as ChatGPT are helping threat actors refine the social engineering messages that enable the success of an email phishing attack. Our Cyber Security Awareness Training still includes looking out for …
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