Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
We all have the best technical cyber security defences in place we can afford (or we should have). The threat actors know this so they are always on the hunt for those techniques that our anti-virus and filtering systems cannot detect. PowerShell is a powerful Windows command line and automation …
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This is something I try and explain at every cyber security awareness session I run – what is a phishing email? The answer is constantly changing as the threat actors never stand still in their attempts to get us to infect our own computers. I used to point to bad …
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Bandit Stealer malware is promoted by the hacker developers as the most advanced information stealer available to threat actors. It can exfiltrate data from most popular browsers including usernames and cookies and other system information such as IP addresses and details of a victim’s computer. The Telegram messaging app is …
Following a meeting with a client last week and the first news item I posted on Monday, I started this week thinking about risk, which has led to a short series of articles looking at… risk! On Smart Thinking I wrote about risk analysis and how I get started with …
I am always pushing the necessity of keeping up with patches and updates – they are everyone’s essential step for good cyber security. However here is the warning tale for when things go wrong at the vendor end: HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update (bleepingcomputer.com) When …
