The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has joined with the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI and US National Security Agency (NSA) to issue a security advisory about vulnerabilities in Cisco devices: APT28 Exploits Known Vulnerability To Carry Out Reconnaissance and Deploy Malware on Cisco Routers | …
NCSC report on commercial cyber attacks
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a report looking at the increase in commercial cyber tools and services. The threat from commercial cyber proliferation – NCSC.GOV.UK It looks at how easy it is now for relatively low skilled threat actors to access sophisticated malware and deploy these attack …
Business continuity – Cyber breaches take time to fix
Why is a business continuity plan a good idea? Here’s why -the Acro Criminal Records Office is still facing disruption following the cyber security breach last month. Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack – BBC News Your takeaway from this is that a well funded government resource …
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Watch where you download your Tor browser from…
…or any other software. Governments around the world, including for instance Russia, ban Tor web sites from the internet in their countries as it is a very effective way for users to conceal their IP address from authorities. However this had led to a rise in other sites offering Tor …
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National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 24 March 2023
Threat Report 24 March 2023 – NCSC.GOV.UK