This one action is not going to stop cyber-crime, but Microsoft has seized rogue domains in the past and there is no doubt that it has an impact on the threat actor’s illicit infrastructure. Microsoft seizes websites used to sell phony email accounts • The Register Your takeaway from this …
Has Sellafield been hacked?
The UK Government denies that Sellafield, the nuclear research and processing site located on the Cumbria coast, has been infected with malware since 2015. Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China | The Guardian The fears are that some of the mist confidential information stored on …
The Wednesday Bit this week
One thing I learnt very quickly whilst studying and after graduation was that my degree in cyber security was only the tool to make me think about cyber security properly and unless I kept my personal study up to date the degree would soon become useless. That is why I …
Defence in Depth
One of the things that came out of the conference I attended on Tuesday in London, was defence in depth, combatting the ways in which the threat actors have expanded their attack vectors and tactics to evade various modern technical and human defences. The message we should all take from …
It was not us!
This week I have been discussing user and systems monitoring with a client’s senior management team. Their immediate response was that they did not want to spy on their staff as they trusted them – and to be fair they are appear to be a friendly supportive organisation. However my …
