Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The SANS Internet Storm Centre is reporting another spam email attack doing the rounds with a new payload. TA551 (Shathak) pushes IcedID (Bokbot) (sans.edu) The important things to take away from this are: In real world situations ransomware has been delivered to companies using these methods Keep your spam filters …
Bruce Schneier is recommending these articles, by Sean Gallagher, on securing your digital life. Securing your digital life, part one: The basics | Ars Technica Securing your digital life, part two: The bigger picture—and special circumstances | Ars Technica
There is an interesting opinion piece in The Register today by Mark Pesce, making us think about Facebook’s (Meta’s) metaverse announcement. You should read it – in fact the way Mark Zuckerberg spoke of it, everyone should read everything they can about it and carefully consider the implications if they …
Continue reading “The metaverse – and the fight for control of you”
The Nation Cyber Security has an article about cyber-attacks can lead to the loss of control of your information. In the case of the Labour Party they have lost control of their member’s information because of a data breach at a third party they were doing business with. Weekly Threat …
Continue reading “NCSC and the Labour Party – do you need an incident response plan?”
The National Crime Agency, the Information Commissioner’s Office and National Cyber Security Centre are investigating an incident involving the membership data of the Labour Party. Labour Party members’ data hit by cyber incident – BBC News The scale of the breach and the third party that has been breached has …
