Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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WordPress is an extremely popular platform for producing web content – so threat actors are constantly probing it looking for gaps in the security. The popular plug-ins also make great targets because if their security fails the potential victims can number in the many thousands. Or millions. WordPress Elementor plugin …
Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for Outlook to protect from an exploit that could bypass a previous security patch. Microsoft patches bypass for recently fixed Outlook zero-click bug (bleepingcomputer.com) You need to check that the automatic updates have done their thing and applied this patch. If not get it …
Here is a follow-up story to the recent Capita data breach. Capita admits cost of March breach will be up to £20M • The Register Capita is the UK’s largest outsourcing company with the UK armed forces, government and some very large companies as its clients. So the costs of …
We write a lot about patches and updates – they are important to keep your organisation secure. But do not be tempted when browsing the web to follow a helpful advert that offers you Windows updates. That is not how it is done! Fake in-browser Windows updates push Aurora info-stealer …
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