Pretty straight forward – if a bad actor gets some of their malware past your defences and you suffer a ransomware attack – your business will STOP! Ransomware attack grounds flights at India’s SpiceJet • The Register Multiple flights across India grounded after SpiceJet airline hit with ransomware – The …
Here is something new – pre-hijacking!
Hijacking of online accounts is a serious cyber security concern. The unauthorised access by threat actors to everything from Amazon accounts to Zoho accounts all have data breach consequences either for the individual or organisation. (That is why we tell all our clients to make multi-factor authentication (MFA) compulsory for …
InfoSec in Indian now always seems to be in hurry
Following the Indian government directives about reporting of cyber-security incidents and the requirement to keep VPN user logs, both of which had ridiculously short deadlines for compliance – here is another: Indian stock markets given ten day deadline to file reports • The Register India in the news – when …
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Zoom – just get it updated
What was a little known communication and collaboration product before the COVID-19 pandemic, has now become common place both in business and the home. Everything from music concerts, birthday parties, quizzes, government briefings and business meeting – some confidential and some not – have been held on Zoom all over …
Spied on through your webcam – thankfully Screencastify fixed it!
The developers of the Chrome extension, Screencastify, used for capturing and sharing videos from websites, have fixed an issue where victim could have been spied on using the webcam in their device. Any recorded video could then have been stolen. Chrome extension Screencastify fixes webcam spy bug • The Register