Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) is a fundamental concept in cybersecurity. It ensures that users are granted only the minimum necessary access rights required to perform their job functions. This principle is one I always enforce in cyber security as it is a powerful way of defending the most …
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Sometimes a cyber-attack is something as easy as adding a button saying “view document” when whale phishing senior people in an organisation. Ongoing Microsoft Azure account hijacking campaign targets executives (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway When was the last time you audited the credentials and associated authorisations of those credentials? If you …
Today I am going to look at why credentials are so important in cyber security? Credentials for identity The management of credentials across your organisation for all services is an important impact of your cyber security, whether it is someone using the global administrator account as their “daily driver” work …
Today there is an excellent illustration of how a phishing attack works on SANS Internet Storm. It is complete with the offer of something the victim wants and then simply steals the Microsoft credentials the victim supplies – all because of a well-crafted spam email. Credential Harvesting with Telegram API …
Fast Company an American magazine was hacked and abusive articles added to its news feeds, resulting in this material getting a wider audience through syndication on the Apple News app. The Apple News channel was quickly disabled and Fast Company took its site down pending a fix but the damage was …
