A report by a Google research team shows that Google has sent out more than 50,000 cyber security alerts so far in 2021 to users who were targets of state sponsored phishing or malware attempts. Google warns of surge in activity by state-backed hackers | Hacking | The Guardian
Commercial Spyware – of course its use is being abused
This spyware is not available Dark Web it can be purchased legitimately. The Guardian calls it: “…perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – certainly by a private company.” Both The Conversation and The Guardian have articles looking at how the powerful Pegasus surveillance software has been used …
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When Hacking is a Competition
Before we go on – hacking competitions are not illegal and many of them are organised across the world each year. They give a chance for the white hat hacking community to improve their skills and can often find flaws in software that benefit all of us. Once a cyber …
Cloud services – if breached what do they leak about your business
What information do you and I entrust to cloud services? We all like cloud services – for modern businesses, especially smaller businesses they give access to software, services and functionality that when we started Octagon Technology would have been beyond their reach. Then there are the back-ups – in the …
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Educational institutions around the world suffer ransomware attack
A hack targeted at Blackbaud – a company providing educational support services – has compromised data belonging to universities and institution around the world. Under various laws this was a notifiable incident – the UK law states that the ICO must be informed within 72 hours – however Blackbaud took …
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Twitter hack
High profile hacks are always going to make the mainstream news – add to that celebrities, influencers, Bitcoin and the fact the hackers netted about £80,000 before being closed down – then the Twitter hack was always going to make big headlines. Here is a link to the BBC article, …
