Brad Smith, President & Vice Chair at Microsoft discusses what has been learnt, so far, from the Ukraine Russia cyber conflict and looks at how this can easily spread beyond the borders of the conflicting nations: Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War – Microsoft On the Issues
OSINT – Do you know what it is?
OSINT = Open Source Intelligence. That is that information that a threat actor can gather about you and your organisation, from open source resources – there is no need to hack you if you leave the information lying around. When I was studying, the weeks we covered OSINT, were some …
The malware player Wizard Spider
Wizard Spider, is the gang that is behind the malware Conti, Ryuk and Trickbot. Research by PRODAFT has examined their growth and operations over the last five years that has built an illicit corporate-like multimillion-dollar organisation. Terms like “full-service”, “it manages the entire lifecycle of a cyberattack” and “it invests …
Google – “cybersecurity is one of the top issues facing the world today”
The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …
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Satellite cyber-attacks, WhisperGate, AcidRain and the spread of the Russia Ukraine cyber conflict
Statements have been made this week by the European Union, the United States and other allies relating the WhisperGate cyber attacks that were directed at Ukraine but spilled over into the greater Europe damaging thousands of modems. This damage had the knock on effect of crippling wind turbines and subsequent …
