Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
As part of our “weekend read” section, here is a piece by Chris Stokel-Walker and Dan Milmo at The Guardian looking at the hacker volunteers, fighting what they consider a white hat action against Russia. ‘It’s the right thing to do’: the 300,000 volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia …
I have written recently about the increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – here is a real world example of the effectiveness of these new massive attacks: Israeli govt sites hit by huge DDoS attack • The Register
There are reports of the BazarLoader malware being spread via website contact pages: Cedric Pernet’s article on TechRepublic starts with an excellent quote/reminder: Everyone in the IT industry should be aware by now that email is the most used vector for cybercriminals to try to infect employees with malware. Cedric …
Here is an article by Brian Stone, from TechRepublic, looking at the possibility and in the implications of such an action, following a statement by the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Russia may try to dodge sanctions using ransomware payments, warns US Treasury | TechRepublic
Denial of Service attacks or Distributed Denial of Service attacks are cyber security attacks where a website is flooded with malicious traffic making it unusable. Research by Radware, found these attacks had greatly increased in 2021 – where it was also discovered that ransomware gangs have been using these attacks …
