Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Selling redundant gear and wiping hard drives on computers has pretty much become standard over the last few years – whether the machines are going for resale, donation, upcycling or recycling. But what happens when it comes to cyber security critical network devices? These bits of kit can be eye-wateringly …
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This is a follow-up to an earlier story I wrote about a cyber security incident at Capita – the UK’s largest outsourcing company. An attack that is believed to have started with compromised credentials: Capita confirms hackers stole data in recent cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that credential …
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …
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AlienFox is a malicious modular toolkit that threat actors can buy via a private Telegram channel. New AlienFox toolkit steals credentials for 18 cloud services (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware can be configured to scan for misconfigured servers and steal authentication details and credentials for a range of popular cloud-based services such …
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This is only being released to the Windows Insider programme at the moment but if it is will get to the general release soon. Windows 11 gets phishing protection boost and SHA-3 support (bleepingcomputer.com) It is designed to protect your credentials, alerting you if you are about to carry out …
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