In a week when I have been talking about risk, just about everywhere, online, with clients and in our own staff meetings, it seems only right that one of my favourite YouTube channels produces a video on the risk with rockets. The footage of unmanned rockets exploding is spectacular, have …
Colchester City Council Hack
The Council has had to send out thousands of letter following being caught up in the security breach at Capita. Colchester City Council contacts 7,000 people after data hack – BBC News Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the country offering a wide range of services that businesses, organisations, …
Credentials – A Primer
Today I am going to look at why credentials are so important in cyber security? Credentials for identity The management of credentials across your organisation for all services is an important impact of your cyber security, whether it is someone using the global administrator account as their “daily driver” work …
Qbot evolves and some very basic cyber security advice!
Qbot is a long establish bit of malware that has been evolving to exploit the changing threat landscape. It started life over a decade ago as a banking trojan and the latest version the latest version employs a sophiscated command and control infrastructure to deliver a range of malware to …
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Realistic Cyber Security
As you probably know, if you follow this blog, I was in Edinburgh last week at the 6th Intl. Conference on Big Data, Cybersecurity & Critical Infrastructure held at the Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University. For my post this week I wanted to share one positive thing I got from …