Or do you let your staff or IT Support sell it on eBay? $35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned | Ars Technica We do not resell equipment we are charged with disposing of securely.
Long term firmware compromise
This is an article looking at the invisible threat in our hardware – UEFI rootkit attacks. Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us | Ars Technica
If a software attack will not work – get out the wire cutters
This is not something that most of us will have to defend against – but it reads like a classic 1960’s spy story. The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris | WIRED UK Do you want another cyber security story that reads like a 1960’s spy story – …
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Cyber criminals start an actual fire at a plant
A cyber gang, Predatory Sparrow, have claimed to have taken control of plant at a steel works in Iran and caused it to malfunction. There is CCTV footage showing the machinery malfunctioning and plant workers fleeing the area. Predatory Sparrow: Who are the hackers who say they started a fire …
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If you have an Aruba or Avaya switch – then this post is for you
Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in these devices. No exploits have been reported in the wild – but patches are available – so get patching. Critical flaws in ‘millions of Aruba, Avaya switches’ • The Register
