Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Having ended last week’s cyber security news with ransomware stories and then starting this week’s news again with ransomware, our Operations Manager Martin and I ended up talking about the first time he and I dealt with this type of malware on a client’s network and in-house server… Ransomware in …
We finished last week with a ransomware story. let’s start this week with another: BlackCat ransomware hits Azure Storage with Sphynx encryptor (bleepingcomputer.com) This ransomware story has a twist, the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang are ow using stolen Microsoft credentials in custom software to execute their attacks. Your takeaway You …
As promised – a reminder of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday… This morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no …
Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) is now operational and our first clients are already benefiting from our continuous 24/7 monitoring, analysis, alert and response service. You could as well… Why you need a Security Operations Centre Here is a great quote from the director of the Security Operations Centre: A …
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I am often asked how threat actors get their malicious packages past both the latest technical monitoring and a well-trained staff. The quick answer is the hackers are always looking for and changing to new attack vectors – such as this one: MalDoc in PDFs: Hiding malicious Word docs in …
