I have a new article on CyberAwake which starts to look at the benefits of having a positive cyber security culture in your organisation: The Cyber Security Culture – CyberAwake
A record number of ransomware attacks
This not not good reading – an increase in ransomware attacks: March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway is – you need a plan for ransomware! If you’d like a little help with this have a look at my recent mini-series on ransomware: Ransomware – …
Capita – data was stolen
This is a follow-up to an earlier story I wrote about a cyber security incident at Capita – the UK’s largest outsourcing company. An attack that is believed to have started with compromised credentials: Capita confirms hackers stole data in recent cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that credential …
Incident Response Training
I have a couple of articles this week looking at an unannounced cyber security incident response exercise I ran earlier this week. It’s Tuesday and I think I have a computer virus… Incident Response Communications – Have You Got It Covered? I chose the day I did as some of …
Phishing emails – can you recognise them?
Phishing emails with a carefully scripted social engineering message, a malicious .pdf file with links to malware stored in Firebase Storage on Google. Brad Duncan on SANS InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog has the full story including screenshots of the phishing email and the steps to infection: Recent IcedID (Bokbot) activity …
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