Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is far too many unpatched and vulnerable servers. Over 29,000 Exchange servers unpatched against high-severity flaw – BleepingComputer Computer Your Takeaway You might not have an Exchange server but managing and ensure all the cyber security patches needed to keep your organisation protected is a task that should not …
Use MFA or Multi-factor Authentication. End of article, well not quite… So you have heard of MFA but let’s clarify why it is a good idea I am not going to go into the technicalities of how MFA works – I have included a link below if you want to …
The zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint that was allegedly exploited by Chinese state threat actors is big cyber security news. SharePoint – A Security Mess | Smart Thinking Solutions If you are interested exactly how an exploit on this vulnerability would work and what it means for your cyber security …
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In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
I wrote briefly on the flaws discovered in Microsoft SharePoint, which have been exploited, last week: SharePoint hacks | Smart Thinking Solutions Bruce Schneier has a piece linking to a number of articles looking at the impact of this ongoing cyber security issue: Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day – Schneier on Security …
