The US government has offered a reward up to $10million for information relating to the DarkSide hacking group that attacked US oil supply infrastructure in May 2021. US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers – BBC News However as these hackers are thought to be in Russia, even these …
Spyware Company added to trade blacklist
I have written about the controversial, commercially available, spyware Pegasus a number of times: Pegasus – Smart Thinking Solutions Frank Gardner, the BBC’s respected security correspondent refers to the Pegasus software as military grade spyware. Now the company behind the software, NSO Group of Israel, has now been added the …
Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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Are you still using RDP? If so examine your risk!
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was very popular, until it’s vulnerabilities came to light. It’s time to disconnect RDP from the internet | WeLiveSecurity Today Sans Internet Storm is reporting an increase in probes being initiated against RDP services – even though it is a well known weak service. Remote Desktop …
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Microsoft monitors state actioned hacking – what is the risk?
Microsoft has an article outline the activities of the hacking group Nobelium. “…we’re sharing the latest activity we’ve observed from the Russian nation-state actor Nobelium. This is the same actor behind the cyberattacks targeting SolarWinds customers in 2020…” New activity from Russian actor Nobelium – Microsoft On the Issues You …
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More misuses of Pegasus
Another instance of the questionable use of the commercially available spyware Pegasus. New York Times Journalist Hacked with NSO Spyware – Schneier on Security Other Pegasus articles: Pegasus – Smart Thinking Solutions
It’s that Pegasus software again – more spyware
A few months ago I wrote about the commercially available spyware Pegasus. Now it is back in the news again – this time the use of Pegasus by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, to spy on his wife has caused Cambridge university to halt a £400m project …
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