Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Dropbox has admitted that 130 of its confidential private GitHub repositories were coped by a threat actor. Among the haul were secret APUI codes. They do reassure users that no user content, usernames or passwords were stolen. Well of course not. That is not the issue. Why bother stealing those …
Whilst I have been away CISA has continued issuing useful advice. It added a Google Chromium vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Google Chromium is an open–source browser project and is behind many widely used browsers including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. CISA Has Added One Known Exploited Vulnerability …
A report from SonicWall shows that the number of Ransomware has dropped over the past months – however this is not the good news it appears to be as they have only dropped from the record highs of 2020/2021 and are still way above levels previous to that. 2022 SonicWall …
It is not really a surprise, with the exponential rise in home shopping and deliveries because of the pandemic, that the delivery service DHL is the most impersonated organisation when it comes to cyber attacks: DHL named most-spoofed brand in phishing • The Register Microsoft and LinkedIN are close behind. …
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I write a lot about phishing emails and social engineering attacks, because it is probably the way threat actors could most easily get malware inside your defences and from there compromise your security, your information and ultimately your wallet! The Berkshire based construction company, Interserve Group Ltd, with an employee …
