I have written a lot about updates and patches recently – let’s get back to another old favourite – ransomware. No surprise it is still a growth market for threat actors. Read about it in Unit 42’s bi-annual report: Ransomware Review: First Half of 2024 (paloaltonetworks.com) Your takeaway Simple – …
Why Cyber Security Awareness Training is Importatnt?
Whatever technical defences you (and I) rely on, there is a probability that the threat actors will find ways to bypass them: Microsoft 365 anti-phishing feature can be bypassed with CSS (bleepingcomputer.com) If the phishing email gets as far as your team member’s inbox, they had better be able to …
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How much internet traffic is malicious?
Cloudflare, a company best known for protecting clients from various flavours of denial of service attacks, has done the research and calculated that 6.8% of all internet traffic is out to get you. This is an increase of last year’s findings. Application Security report: 2024 update – Cloudflare Cloudflare believes …
NHS Cyber Security Gaps
I often feature articles here on Smart Thinking about the cyber security issues the NHS suffers. I think it is important as it illustrates to any organisation that if you make a mistake there can be serious consequences for you and your stake holders – hopefully not as disastrous as …
Does a VPN work?
Today I was going to talk about about the importance of monitoring your information storage and user accounts, but Mr Putin’s government changed my mind, as they have compelled Apple to remove VPN apps from the Russian App Store. (Gatlan, 2024) What is a VPN? It stands for Virtual Private …
