If you are hit by the right type of ransomware (can there be a right type of ransomware?) then Bitdefender may have a decryptor for you. But it only works for MortalKombat ransomware: New MortalKombat ransomware decryptor recovers your files for free (bleepingcomputer.com) Better still make sure your team know …
TikTok the story cyber security continues
Following the calls around the world for TikTok to be banned from governmental offices and official organisations (see yesterday), Joe Tidy, the Cyber Correspondent at the BBC has the TikTok response to the accusations that the service is not secure as the Chinese Government can get access to anything. TikTok …
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Exploitation and how to avoid it…
…just slow down. I often use the example of a successful social engineering/phishing email as one that arrives when you are under work pressure or just before before you want to leave for the weekend. Both are periods when the threat actors know your guard will be down – they …
WordPress vulnerabilities and you
Over the last two weeks we have had two WordPress jobs. One came about when our sysadmin discovered, during a routine system check, that a client’s site was using several insecure plugins. She contacted the client and their web designer and a disaster was averted – that web designer has …
More information on one of the LastPass security breaches
I have written before on the security breaches at the password vault LastPass: LastPass articles on Smart Thinking Solutions It has now been reported that one of only four people at the company who had access to the most sensitive data, was targeted via their home computer: LastPass says employee’s …
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