Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
Why does the Capita data breach have something to teach every organisation about cyber security? When a company has many clients for whom they do so many things, it stands to reason that threat actors will take an interest. One breach and the criminals get access to a wide range …
One of the topics covered at the cyber security conference I was at last week was how AI tools such as ChatGPT are helping threat actors refine the social engineering messages that enable the success of an email phishing attack. Our Cyber Security Awareness Training still includes looking out for …
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We write a lot about patches and updates – they are important to keep your organisation secure. But do not be tempted when browsing the web to follow a helpful advert that offers you Windows updates. That is not how it is done! Fake in-browser Windows updates push Aurora info-stealer …
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