Why does the Capita data breach have something to teach every organisation about cyber security? When a company has many clients for whom they do so many things, it stands to reason that threat actors will take an interest. One breach and the criminals get access to a wide range …
The thing I hated from the conference last week
One of the speakers at the cyber security conference last week blamed the users when it came to cyber security. They also were concentrating on big business solutions when the most people work form small organisations. I never blame the users, I also will not get involved in a blame …
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Email Phishing is a constantly changing threat
One of the topics covered at the cyber security conference I was at last week was how AI tools such as ChatGPT are helping threat actors refine the social engineering messages that enable the success of an email phishing attack. Our Cyber Security Awareness Training still includes looking out for …
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Another WordPress Vulnerability
WordPress is an extremely popular platform for producing web content – so threat actors are constantly probing it looking for gaps in the security. The popular plug-ins also make great targets because if their security fails the potential victims can number in the many thousands. Or millions. WordPress Elementor plugin …
CyberAwake – Incident Follow-up
CyberAwake has published a follow-up article to my previous article on Cyber Security Culture. It looks at what you need to think about when it comes to the meetings following an incident: Cyber Security Incident Follow-up Meetings – (cyberawake.co.uk) How you approach these meeting can have a huge impact on …
