The University has informed all relevant authorities, including the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the National Crime Agency (NCA), about the data theft and security breach. The investigations are ongoing. University of Manchester says hackers ‘likely’ stole data in cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com)
Why team training has to be part of your cyber security plan?
We all have the best technical cyber security defences in place we can afford (or we should have). The threat actors know this so they are always on the hunt for those techniques that our anti-virus and filtering systems cannot detect. PowerShell is a powerful Windows command line and automation …
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Explain to me what a phishing email looks like?
This is something I try and explain at every cyber security awareness session I run – what is a phishing email? The answer is constantly changing as the threat actors never stand still in their attempts to get us to infect our own computers. I used to point to bad …
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New info stealing malware
Bandit Stealer malware is promoted by the hacker developers as the most advanced information stealer available to threat actors. It can exfiltrate data from most popular browsers including usernames and cookies and other system information such as IP addresses and details of a victim’s computer. The Telegram messaging app is …
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 …
