Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am always pushing the necessity of keeping up with patches and updates – they are everyone’s essential step for good cyber security. However here is the warning tale for when things go wrong at the vendor end: HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update (bleepingcomputer.com) When …
Read the article from Bleeping Computers or just jump to HPs page to see if your organisation is using one of the affected devices – but if you know you have an HO computer do something… Firmware bugs in many HP computer models left unfixed for over a year (bleepingcomputer.com) …
This is an interesting report from HP’s cyber security division: The Evolution of Cybercrime: Why the Dark Web is Supercharging the Threat Landscape and How to Fight Back | HP Wolf Security Something to read over coffee. HP-Wolf-Security-Evolution-of-Cybercrime-Report.pdf
Researchers at HP Wolf Security have started to see phishing spam email campaigns deploying a previously unknown malware family SVCReady. The HP security blog has a very good description of the malware and how it works – a bit techie – but towards the end it shows some images of …
Getting the word out to you, about the wide range of phishing emails and their associated social engineering tricks actually active in the wild, is one of the ain reasons this blog exists. Many of our clients use this blog as a resource as a link to the multitude of …
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