Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
CyberAwake has published a follow-up article to my previous article on Cyber Security Culture. It looks at what you need to think about when it comes to the meetings following an incident: Cyber Security Incident Follow-up Meetings – (cyberawake.co.uk) How you approach these meeting can have a huge impact on …
If you want to know what a malicious phishing email and Word document looks like and how it functions, have a read of this article by Xavier Mertens on SANS Internet Strom. Infostealer Embedded in a Word Document – SANS Internet Storm Center It uses a simple technique to get …
A vulnerable WordPress plugin is in the news. The Advanced Custom Fields plugin needs to be updated or your site is vulnerable: WordPress plugin flaw puts ‘millions of websites’ at risk • The Register If you use this get it updated now. Do you know if your website uses this …
…and a good news story about Facebook. The information stealing malware, NodeStealer spotted by the Facebook security team stealing Facebook user information and hijacking accounts – so they stepped in and blocked it. Facebook disrupts new NodeStealer information-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware exfiltrated session cookies from a range of the …
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Another school has been hit by ransomware. They tend to be soft targets for threat actors as they use a range of predictable applications, their IT teams are not large, IT tends not to be a priority and they have a large group of potential victims for phishing emails etc. …
