If so it is time to speak to your cyber security support and check if your customer’s data has been compromised? Ticketmaster confirms massive breach after stolen data for sale online (bleepingcomputer.com) The ransomware gang, Shiny Hunters, has tried to sell the Ticketmaster data on the Dark Web. Here is …
Back to Basics – The Collection II
This week the Wednesday Bit is for reminding you about my collection of mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers. There have been a number of additions, updates and changes since I first ran a “Collection” article. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some …
The Principle of Least Privilege and Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability – A Primer
Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability (AAA) and The Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) come together in this primer to give you a basic understanding of the importance of knowing who is accessing your information and how much they can access. Another important idea covered here is what happens when something goes …
USB cyber-attack – Device Security (Pt. 4)
I thought I was done with device security for the time being – but then, of course, I got a question from a client. “What about USB drives?” Rather than write a completely new article let me reprint an article I wrote for CyberAwake looking at USB storage security – …
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Threat actors target MFA
Whatever you read here in a few moments – it is my opinion that MFA (Multi-factor authentication) still remains a key tool in protecting your team’s credentials and defending your information. MFA under attack There have always been weaknesses in and attacks against, some very simple such as just annoying …