We are all aware that a ransomware demand is going to be Bitcoin or some other, almost untraceable, cryptocurrency, but exactly how much that is going to be in pounds, dollars or euros can vary. It is now being reported that an “enterprising” ransomware gang is persuading victims that it …
GoDaddy security breaches
GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest web hosting companies – we have clients with them, although we do not use them ourselves. GoDaddy has reported that the same threat actor breached the GoDaddy security three times in three years and accessed customer and employee information, installed malware and redirects …
More cyber security advisories this week from CISA
To add to those I listed on Wednesday, the very useful US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) site has security advisories for Cisco and another entry added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog: Cisco Releases Security Advisories for Multiple Products | CISA (we use some of these products …
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Be careful what you give to ChatGPT – a new type of intellectual property leak.
The artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT has been in the recently – a lot – for producing essays, academic papers, poetry (I am sure someone used it for Valentine’s Day), homework, hacking etc. But here is a new cyber security risk and data leak, that I am sure no one …
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The Insider Threat
The insider threat – the breaking of trust by one of your team is probably the hardest cyber security incident to deal with. Without trust organisations cannot function. Here is an example from the world stage where China is accused of stealing intellectual property from computer chip manufacturer ASML : …
