The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) site is one of the “go to places” for me and my team to keep up with vulnerabilities in our client’s software. Although aimed at the US Government and US users it is still really useful. The alerts cover both software …
Russian offensive malware spreads outside Ukraine
We have not heard much recently about the cyber war between Ukraine and Russia but here is a story that illustrates what I have been saying about malware creep and collateral damage from deployed malware weapons. By the very nature of online commerce and communications these cyber-weapons will spread outside …
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Because It’s Friday – It’s all about the moon
Because It’s Friday is all about finding something interesting to ease all of us into the weekend, following a week of usually stressful cyber security news. I have been away on leave for the last few weeks and space has taken centre stage whilst I have been away, with some …
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Phishing this is how the malware gets in!
I’ll start this story with an example of a phishing attack run by one of the Russian sponsored hacking groups currently involved in the Russian Ukraine conflict. You are not likely to be one of their carefully selected targets but it illustrates how other threat actors operate. The group is …
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Watch where you download your Tor browser from…
…or any other software. Governments around the world, including for instance Russia, ban Tor web sites from the internet in their countries as it is a very effective way for users to conceal their IP address from authorities. However this had led to a rise in other sites offering Tor …
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