Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
International co-operation and excellent police work can have an impact on cyber security threats large and small. Here is an example of the FBI and US Justice Department closing and seizing domains associated with international DDoS attacks. Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown | Ars Technica …
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Ok it is clickbait of a type – but this is a serious story of how systems we all depend can be vulnerable after extended research of both white and (possibly) black hat hackers. In this case legitimate cyber security researchers will demonstrate to the European Space Agency (ESA) how …
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …
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Here is a good news cyber security story: UK National Crime Agency reveals it ran fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect users’ data (therecord.media) When enquiring about buying distributed denial of service attacks, the hackers were duped into giving their information to law enforcement. An excellent example of social engineering – …
The cyber security company Kaspersky has released a decryptor for data encrypted by Conti ransomware malware – although you will need to act fast if you intend to use it, as Conti are sure to release a patch to break the recovery tool. Kaspersky releases decryptor for ransomware based on …
