Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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There are claims from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team that they have discovered a nearly undetectable strain of malware. The malware is contained in a CV for Roshan Bandara, but rather than the normal .pdf or Word file it is an image file -.iso. Near-undetectable malware linked …
This post was first published on 5 July 2022. The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, is calling for improved cyber security, in the country following the unprecedented alleged data theft by ChinaDan: Security warning after sale of stolen Chinese data – BBC News Details of the theft are starting to be …
We all look out for those malicious .pdf, Word and Excel attachments, when we are looking through our email. Research has now shown that the attached html file can be a huge threat. HTML attachments found to be the most malicious type of file | TechRepublic It is a difficult …
