Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Whatever your opinions of the Tea app are, the breach of its security has serious implications for its users. This is an ongoing story which is just getting worse as more details as to what exactly was stolen are being discovered. Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user …
This is not a political story but a cyber security story. Last year it was revealed that the UK’s Electoral Commission – a body charged with maintaining, credibility and openness in the UK’s voting system – had been hacked, about 10 months prior to them making a statement about it. …
Continue reading “Just when you thought the election was behind us!”
I thought I was done with device security for the time being – but then, of course, I got a question from a client. “What about USB drives?” Rather than write a completely new article let me reprint an article I wrote for CyberAwake looking at USB storage security – …
Continue reading “USB cyber-attack – Device Security (Pt. 4)”
We have not heard much recently about the cyber war between Ukraine and Russia but here is a story that illustrates what I have been saying about malware creep and collateral damage from deployed malware weapons. By the very nature of online commerce and communications these cyber-weapons will spread outside …
Continue reading “Russian offensive malware spreads outside Ukraine”
MOVEit is (was) a very popular software package used by many to “securely” share files both internally and between organisations. But it has a security flaw which was exploited by the Clop ransomware gang before Progress Software, the owners of MOVEit knew there was a problem – but by then …
Continue reading “A zero-day story. If you use or used MOVEit then you need to read this.”
