Imagine if your medical records, information about your sex life or your political opinions were put into the public domain so anyone could see them. When personal data is shared […]
Even the bad guys use a VPN…: Security researchers identify APT33’s private network of 21 VPN nodes. Original Article
In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in […]
Mainstream media reporting of DDoS attacks on Labour. It turns out that they use Cloudflare (as do I) so the impact was low…: […] Dr Duncan Hodges, senior lecturer in […]
Useful summary of responses to cyber attacks in the US…: In August 2019 there were multiple ransomware attacks in Texas, which characterize the increasing trend of state and local cyberattacks […]
Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top […]
When I saw the headline my first reaction was “Don’t they already do this?” followed swiftly by “Yes, but that hasn’t always kept users safe (look at all those dodgy […]
This is a bit strange. Let’s wait until the fog clears to see if anything actually happened…: […] A Pemex spokeswoman who asked not to be identified, citing internal policy, […]
From the article: “compliance programs often fall over under real-world threats.” Just about every major breach of payment system that gets publicised is of an organisation that is ‘PCI compliant’ […]
Orvis, a Vermont-based retailer that specializes in high-end fly fishing equipment and other sporting goods, leaked hundreds of internal passwords on Pastebin.com for several weeks last month, exposing credentials the […]