There are reports of customers being angry with the response of Booking.com to a cyber-attack that has compromised their systems and has resulted in the theft of money from customers by the hackers. Booking.com users angry at firm’s response to hacks – BBC News How a company responds to its …
In Support of Encryption
The idea for this article on encryption came to me whilst reading Joe Haldeman’s The Hemingway Hoax (see the disclaimer at the end of this article) – written in 1990 it was slightly ahead of the computer revolution. In the book, three people are involved in a fraud to produce …
A good news cyber security story
The police forces from seven nations, with Europol and Eurojust have broken up and arrested members of a ransomware gang that has been attributed with cyber-attacks in 71 countries. Police dismantle ransomware group behind attacks in 71 countries (bleepingcomputer.com) The operation based primarily in Ukraine with assistance for investigators from …
CISA round-up
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a number of cyber security here is a round-up of the most recent: The CISA site is one of the “go to places” for me and my team to keep up with vulnerabilities in our client’s software. Although aimed …
The anatomy of a phishing email
Phishing email cyber-attacks have to be the most common cyber-attack directed at any organisation. Most are trying to get the victim to reveal their credentials, often for Microsoft 365. Every week I spend time with clients discussing or investigating phishing emails and helping them put systems in place to help …
