Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …
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I try and highlight the variety of social engineering phishing emails doing the rounds as awareness among your people about the ways they are having their trust exploited, when they check their email, is essential for them to beat the threat actors. Here is another one taken apart by the …
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The vulnerabilities are for Zyxel firewalls and VMWare Spring Cloud. CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA The Apache issue is with Tomcat: Apache Releases Security Advisory for Tomcat | CISA Researchers, NSA cybersecurity director warn of hackers targeting Zyxel vulnerability – The Record by Recorded Future
The BPFdoor malware has been undetected in the wild for more than five years – infecting Linux and Solaris systems. The malware can give remote access to the shell and complete control to a compromised system. BPFdoor: Stealthy Linux malware bypasses firewalls for remote access (bleepingcomputer.com) The twist with this …
If the ransomware gangs keep making large sums of money – easily – from attacking businesses, then they will continue sending out those phishing emails to organisations all round the world. Statistics like these do not help any of us: Most organizations hit by ransomware would pay if hit again …
