This post was first published on 16 September 2022 Details and facts are not confirmed yet but Uber has been the victim of a cyber attack: Uber cloud systems seemingly hijacked in ‘security incident’ • The Register Leaked images seem to show the hackers have gained administrator access to Uber’s …
Log4shell – the vulnerability that is inside many software packages – just ask VMware – is here to stay
The SolarWinds attack, where the threat actors got inside SolarWinds’ systems and added their malicious code to a legitimate software update, so having SolarWinds distribute this malware to many of its high and low profile customers around the world, seems a long time ago now. But at least in this …
Connected technology reaches everywhere – it is the internet of things. But some of those things surely need special attention to their security?
Like medical devices: Four vulnerabilities discovered in popular infusion pumps, WiFi batteries – The Record by Recorded Future Your takeaway from this is to look at your IoT and connected devices (such as CCTV) and check they meet your cybersecurity standard, are patched and secured and if administered by a …
Update on the 49ers ransomware attack
I covered this story when it broke back in February and it had a connection to me as I have a San Francisco 49ers account. It contained no financial details but I immediately changed my credentials. I do not reuse passwords, so that was a non-issue for me. Now the …
Just when you thought I had forgotten about ransomware
It is not possible to forget ransomware, just this week our engineers have updated a client’s back-up to one that is ransomware compliant – meaning, among other things, that the threat actors cannot access and so encrypt or alter the back-up during their attacks. Up to this point the client …
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