Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Threat actors, just like any other software developer, are always looking for ways to improve their software. In the case of threat actors this is often done to avoid the mitigation that software vendors have put in place to defend against the malware or patch a vulnerability the threat actors …
Somerset County, in New Jersey has been hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted most of their services – forcing them to switch to temporary Gmail accounts to carry on business. That is not a bad response to an attack that hits your communications – we have a similar plan …
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The FBI have issued an advisory about university and college credentials being offered for sale across a range of cyber crime platforms. Compromised US Academic Credentials Identified Across Various Public and Dark Web Forums (ic3.gov) This follows a steady increase over the past months of Universities and College being the …
Elon Musk having an on/off affair with them, robot accounts, share price falling and now they have been fined $150m, by The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for selling user information that should have been private. Twitter does not seem to be having a good time… Twitter fined $150m …
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This post was first made on 12 April 2022 Update 23 May 2022 Now it is School Districts as targets: K-12 school districts in New Mexico, Ohio crippled by cyberattacks – The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attack exposes data of 500,000 Chicago students (bleepingcomputer.com) Update 20 May 2022 I …
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