Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is an interesting story about the new Microsoft Outlook app spying on you – well not on me I do not use it. It comes from a source that I am unfamiliar with, but it was referenced by Bruce Schneier, a source I respect. Outlook is Microsoft’s new data …
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The big vendors give you peace of mind when it comes to the services they offer. However the big vendors are big targets for threat actors. Recently Microsoft Azure, OneDrive and Outlook portals have been suffering outages and service degradation – Microsoft’s investigation revealed they were under a sustained distributed …
…and a good news story about Facebook. The information stealing malware, NodeStealer spotted by the Facebook security team stealing Facebook user information and hijacking accounts – so they stepped in and blocked it. Facebook disrupts new NodeStealer information-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware exfiltrated session cookies from a range of the …
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Cyber incidents that impact your organisation are not always malicious. A cleaner could pull the plug on your server or a member of staff may inadvertently switch a vital bit of your network off (I have seen t done, too many times) or a service that you rely on may …
Continue reading “When planning for a cyber incident – remember about outages”
These two articles from Bleeping Computer shows the wide range of cyber security issues an organisation has to be aware of and take action about. One is the traditional malware getting into your systems and stealing sensitive information which it then sends out to the threat actors, to be used …
Continue reading “Two very different hacking campaigns in the wild now”
With the holiday season well underway, I thought we would take a look at the cyber security implications of the Out-of-Office notification:
Following up on the two articles I posted yesterday, to give you an awareness of the threat landscape, here are two articles discussing how that landscape is constantly changing. Criminals adopting new methods to bypass improved defenses • The Register Cybercriminals are finding new ways to target cloud environments | …
Continue reading “When you improve your defences – the hackers change their tactics”
