Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The malware/botnet that instigated the recent DDoS attack has now been given a name by Cloudflare – Mantis. Mantis, the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks • The Register Octagon has specified Cloudflare to protect some it’s clients high profile websites. Distributed Denial of Service attacks – Smart Thinking …
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I have gathered here just a selection of the ransomware stories that have made the headlines – for these there are many more that go unreported in the media or even outside the organisation. ‘Lives are at stake’: hacking of US hospitals highlights deadly risk of ransomware | Hacking | …
A hardware flaw like Spectre and Meltdown are always going to be a big issue for users and vendors alike. Patches and fixes are probably going to impact the performance of the CPUs and hardware. They are also going to an attack vector threat actors will constantly return as it …
It is that time again – among the fixes and patches from Microsoft, for July 2022 is one addressing CVE-2022-22047, Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability – according to Microsoft a zero-day flaw that is being exploited by threat actors. For more details see Bleeping Computer’s excellent round-up of Patch Tuesday: …
A new strain of ransomware, HavanaCrypt, is being distributed by threat actors as Google software updates, exploiting Microsoft functionality: HavanaCrypt ransomware sails in as a fake Google update • The Register
