How quickly do you respond to gaps in your cybersecurity? It is obvious but even the biggest organisations and governments in the world will be responding slower that the threat actors – so there will always be gaps in the cyber security. Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of …
BreachForums is more popular than ever with threat actors
BreachForums is a site that shares stolen data between threat actors – and it is expanding mainly due to the “billion record Chinese hack” being shared there: Billion-record Chinese data leak’s host booms • The Register Don’t let your organisation’s information end up there!
“Shoddy” customers’ identity security
JPMorgan Securities, UBS Financial Services, and TradeStation Securities have been fined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – although to me the fines look like small change for these organisations! JPMorgan, UBS accused of shoddy identity theft protection • The Register
Every week we seem to get the same kind of Android app story!
There is a risk associated with with downloading apps from the Google Play Store – even though Google is working on improving the privacy and security of the apps on offer there: I really like this – more transparency in the Google Play Store and the way apps will use …
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LockBit and the Italian Revenue Agency
The prolific cyber criminal gang, LockBit, have released screens shots apparently showing that they have stolen 100GB of data from the Agenzia delle Entrate, or the Italian Government Tax Department. At the moment only a small sample of the data has been made public by LockBit, to convince the Italian …
