Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It is not really a surprise, with the exponential rise in home shopping and deliveries because of the pandemic, that the delivery service DHL is the most impersonated organisation when it comes to cyber attacks: DHL named most-spoofed brand in phishing • The Register Microsoft and LinkedIN are close behind. …
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I write a lot about phishing emails and social engineering attacks, because it is probably the way threat actors could most easily get malware inside your defences and from there compromise your security, your information and ultimately your wallet! The Berkshire based construction company, Interserve Group Ltd, with an employee …
Legitimate software vendors update and patch their products to combat threat actors, so it is no surprise to see that threat actors update and patch their malicious products to evade updated defences: Hacking group updates Furball Android spyware to evade detection (bleepingcomputer.com) Just make sure you manage those Android devices …
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The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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Yesterday CyberAwake published my article looking at how snippets of information can leak out of a company and aid a threat actor:
I really liked this article. I have covered various highly involved cyber attacks over the last few months, deepfakes, hacking cars, air–gap attacks but as it describes in this article, you can use technology to steal those credentials or you can just ask nicely for them: Phishing works so well …
Whilst researching for yesterday’s installment of the Insider Threat series, that I am writing over on our online training site CyberAwake, I read an article by Bret Arsenault, from Microsoft that opened with this quote: The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than …
