Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
An international group of research cryptographers have deciphered over fifty letters, written and encoded by Mary, Queen of Scots, during her imprisonment and passed onto trusted French allies before her execution on February 8, 1587. Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots | Ars Technica …
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I use OneNote a lot – so I had to follow up on my previous post about OneNote attachments being used as an attack vector. OneNote has become the threat actors new choice of attachment probably because Microsoft closed the door on macro attacks. In the wild, Microsoft OneNote’ .one’ …
I write a lot of bad news stories here, it is the nature of a cyber security news site – that’s why we have Because It’s Friday – but here is a good news story when the threat actors get it wrong: First Linux variant of Clop ransomware targeted universities, …
Following LastPass security issues, BitWarden has seen some traction as an alternative – especially as you could run your own BitWarden server – I wrote about that here. Now BitWarden (among other password vault software) has come under threat via a malicious Google Ads phishing campaign, where the threat actors …
An Excel XLL file is a an add-in file that allows third parties to add extra functionality to Microsoft Excel – pretty useful. But of course the threat actors have extended that third party functionality to include malware. Now, just like with macros, Microsoft is blocking XLL files, originating from …
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