This is a from a Sky News report, who interviewed y someone who was employed at the UK Defence Academy, when the attack is alleged to have happened. There is no attribution for the attack. This article is in The Guardian. Cyber-attack on UK’s Defence Academy caused ‘significant’ damage | …
Network abuse – keep your eyes open
Rather than your eyes have the right types of monitoring systems installed to give you peace of mind. It has become quite a thing that malware packages install crypto mining software on the victim’s machine. Stealing compute cycles, power, performance and network bandwidth from you. Here is an article from …
Building a botnet – this can impact you!
This is a story from a few days back but it came to mind following a discussion yesterday with a client who questioned “changing their router/modem/firewall” in a report a prepared for them. This is not the whole answer – which included VPN – but is some of it. SANS …