Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A UK Government’s report looking at cybersecurity breaches across the country, (UK Government. 2022), prepared by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (and sport!) showed clearly email phishing is a real threat: “Of the 39% of UK businesses who identified an attack, the most common threat vector was phishing …
In December 2019, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, decided to pay the ransom, of €200,000 at the time, to release the data of over 22,00 students, the academics and the university administration. Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment (bleepingcomputer.com) Since then the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service …
It may be a new cyber gang but Luna Moth are using the oldest tricks in the book – phishing with social engineering to exploit user’s trust: New ‘Luna Moth’ hackers breach orgs via fake subscription renewals (bleepingcomputer.com) What you and your team need is an awareness of what social …
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This post was originally published on 8 July 2022 Update 12 July 2022 Microsoft says that this rollback of “stopping macros from the web being blocked, out of the box” is only temporary and it points out that admins can still implement this restriction through Group policies: Macros from the …
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have written to The Law Society and The Bar Council outlining why it is better for everyone’s (including those infected with the ransomware) not to engage with the threat actors by paying the ransoms demanded. Solicitors urged to …
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