Nearly every organisation has some legacy systems somewhere – we still have both flavours of Zip Drives available and other out of date hardware just in case. Our legacy systems are because of what we do, but in most cases, it is financial considerations that means old and vulnerable systems …
The Hackers get Hacked
This is the type of story that we like to see. LockBit ransomware gang hacked, victim negotiations exposed – BleepingComputer There is now a message on their admin panel “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague”. Read the article it will cheer you up. Photo by Saksham Choudhary
The nasty side of hacking
Julius Kivimäki has been jailed, in Finland for more than six years, for stealing the confidential files of about 33,000 therapy patients and then trying to blackmail victims with that information. Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail – BBC News He tried extorting the company, Vastaamo, first. When …
Because It’s Friday – True Hacking
Is it too early for Easter? I came across this article following the release of some Apple patches this week, as I was interested how Apple’s tvOS could be compromised by hackers. So I did some research and this was one of the articles Google gave me: The Virus Inside …
Chatbot attacks
A few short months ago AI chatbots and ChatGPT were all the tech and mainstream news seemed to be talking about! But of course, the threat actors were reading and listening to all that news and have been developing attacks that will exploit the victims new love of AI. UK …
