Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
There are reports of a new encryption ransomware strain called Somnia being used against Ukrainian targets by Russian hacktivists. Ukraine says Russian hacktivists use new Somnia ransomware (bleepingcomputer.com) Somnia does not request the victims to pay a ransom in exchange for a working decryptor, as its operators are more interested …
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Elon Musk’s new idea to move Twitter into profit, charging for the blue verification tick, had a fault in its design. Twitter was not verifying the users were who they we purporting to be – so the threat actors moved in very quickly pretending to be a range of celebrities, …
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Threat Report 11th November 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
In the future when computing power increases our current cryptography will become useless. This is important. I read this when it was first published and it was one of those articles that got me reading more and more linked articles, when I should have been working. Well in my job …
This is a weighty report from Microsoft looking at the state of cyber-attacks and responses – it is worth reading: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2022 Your takeaway from this is – if you are better informed you can make better decisions on how to prepare your cyber security responses.
