Threat Report 13th January 2023 – NCSC.GOV.UK
National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 13 January 2023
The Guardian Cyber Attack
I use The Guardian as one of my trusted “newspaper of record” sources here at Smart Thinking Solutions and as I have previously posted staff have been working from home and other systems compromised by a cyber attack that started last December: One of my trusted sources hit but a …
Sometimes a scam is obvious…
…but sometimes you do get fooled. Today I have published my first cyber security article, of 2023, over on our online training site CyberAwake. It is about a spam email that got through our email defences. Sometimes a simple email may work for the bad guys – CyberAwake Here is …
One of my trusted sources hit but a suspected ransomware attack UPDATED
This post was first published on 22 December 2022. Update 4 January 2023 The story has moved on and The Guardian has contacted the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to report the breach. Staff are still being told to work from home. No information about what data may have been impacted …
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Here is a cautionary story if you do not patch and are Albanian
Bruce Schneier has this article about Albanian prosecutors holding IT admins, who failed to patch and update systems, responsible for cyber attacks on Albania: Arresting IT Administrators – Schneier on Security
