Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Throughout the month, we’re partnering with Sophos to provide bitesize cyber security guidance based on the event’s weekly themes. Week 4 Focus: Recognizing and Reporting Phishing Phishing emails fraudulently impersonate others with the goal of getting you to reveal personal information like passwords or card details. Be mindful, phishers commonly play on the following emotional triggers: Curiosity Hope Necessity […]
Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Throughout the month, we’re partnering with Sophos to provide bitesize cyber security guidance based on the event’s weekly themes. Week 3 Focus: Updating Software Updates add new/enhanced features, security fixes, and boost general performance! The exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities in software/applications was the root cause of almost half of cyber incidents investigated in 2021 by Sophos. Keeping […]
Endless vulnerabilities. Widespread hacking campaigns. Slow and technically tough patching. It’s time to say goodbye to on-premise Exchange. Reasonable people who once cared about security, privacy, and reliability ran their own email servers. Today, the vast majority host their personal email in the cloud, handing off that substantial burden to the capable teams at companies […]
It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and today’s cyber security threats are no joke. Russia has engaged in a sustained, malicious cyber campaign against Ukraine and its allies since the February 24 invasion. However the lack of success shows that it’s possible to defend against cyberattacks, even against some of the most sophisticated and persistent attackers, […]
Newly discovered cyber security threat, a cross-platform piece of malware called ‘Chaos’ is spreading on Linux and Windows systems to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks target online gaming firms, crypto exchanges, and rival ‘stressor’ sites renting DDoS-as-a-service. The malware, which was written in Go – Google’s popular cloud and systems programming […]
Microsoft has warned that attackers are already taking advantage of recently disclosed zero-day exploits to hack into victim’s networks and steal data, and more attacks are likely on the way. The two new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server (CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082) were detailed last week, with warnings that they could allow hackers to remotely gain […]
There’s at least one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on in the US Senate: the importance of open-source software in today’s tech world. Seriously. As US Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) said last week, “Open-source software is the bedrock of the digital world.“ His partner across the aisle, Rob Portman (R-OH), agreed, saying, “The computers, […]
Microsoft Warns: Hackers are using open source software and bogus social media accounts to dupe software engineers and IT support staff with fake job offers, that in reality lead to malware attacks. According to threat analysts from Microsoft’s advanced persistent threat (APT) research group, a phishing hacking crew, linked to North Korea’s armed forces, has […]
The most common victims targeted work at organisations that weren’t using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure their accounts. Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are one of the most lucrative forms of cyber crime: According to the FBI, the combined total lost is over $43 billion and counting, with attacks in at least 177 countries. These attacks […]