The Silverstone GP racing circuit has found itself added to a list of victims published by the Royal ransomware group. Investigations are underway to see if this is the case. Popular UK motor racing circuit investigating ransomware attack – The Record by Recorded Future The Royal ransomware gang usually follow …
Australia in the cyber security spotlight – UPDATED
This article was first posted on 27 October 2022 Update 10 November 2022 The headlines say it all: Medibank: Data stolen from Australia health insurance available online – BBC News Medibank hacker says ransom demand was US$10m as purported abortion health records posted | The Guardian These criminals will have …
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26 words written in 1995 that shape the Internet
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as thepublisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Jeff Kosseff. Cybersecurity Law Professor at the United StatesNaval Academy This means, that unlike a newspaper or magazine who would be legally responsible for what …
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GitHub – probably one of the biggest targets for threat actors
GitHub is one of the most popular software repositories so it stands to reason that threat actors will always be searching for ways in as infecting code at source that is then reused in multiple applications is a cost-effective way to run a cyber attack. GitHub has just patched a …
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What can you do if you get infected by ransomware?
Fall back and use your ransomware resilient back-up to recover your encrypted information – and hope that your data classification and segregation has protected your most sensitive information from exfiltration and exposure in the public domain. Or you could hope that the Dutch police have recovered the ransomware decryption key …
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