Fishing gear seller caught in hacker’s net – BBC News Angling Direct, the UK’s biggest fishing shop has been hacked, with users being redirected to a pornography site. it was probably a phishing attack – I could not resist that.
Reward offered for pipeline attackers
The US government has offered a reward up to $10million for information relating to the DarkSide hacking group that attacked US oil supply infrastructure in May 2021. US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers – BBC News However as these hackers are thought to be in Russia, even these …
Labour Party membership data compromised
The National Crime Agency, the Information Commissioner’s Office and National Cyber Security Centre are investigating an incident involving the membership data of the Labour Party. Labour Party members’ data hit by cyber incident – BBC News The scale of the breach and the third party that has been breached has …
Hiding the threat in plain sight
Attackers are always looking for new way to get their illicit packages through defences and this research paper outlines how by exploiting Unicode, malicious code can be written into software so that human code reviewers cannot recognise that it is there. Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities “This work has been under …
Are you still using RDP? If so examine your risk!
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was very popular, until it’s vulnerabilities came to light. It’s time to disconnect RDP from the internet | WeLiveSecurity Today Sans Internet Storm is reporting an increase in probes being initiated against RDP services – even though it is a well known weak service. Remote Desktop …
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