The first article is about a Russian threat group – NoName057(16) – which has claimed it launched a number of DDoS attacks again UK local government websites: Pro-Russia hackers claim Greater Manchester council cyber attacks – BBC News The affected councils have reported that the functionality of their websites suffered …
Stuff happens
On September 4, Tewkesbury Borough Council declared a major IT incident and shut down its systems and enacted their incident response plan. It now turns out that this incident was not a cyber-attack but an error in user accounts. However this does not matter. There was and is inconvenience to …
Cloud Computing Cyber Security
Here is an excellent article from The Conversation, by Amro Al-Said Ahmad, looking at the vulnerabilities of cloud computing and infrastructure. How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks (theconversation.com) Your Takeaway Many times, when I am involved with an IT and Cyber Security …
Port of Tyne
The Port of Tyne has confirmed it has been a victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attack. Port of Tyne website hit by cyber attack – BBC News Your takeaway This type of attack is mainly targeted to disrupt the operation of an organisation’s online services – denying access to …
The Wednesday Bit – On Holiday
The Wednesday Bit is on its summer holidays at the moment, but here is an article that I thought was worth reminding you about. Planning and Preparation Your incident response plans do not need to be very complicated or long – they just need to cover what you need to …
