Author: Mark

(8th May 2024) sees OFCOM – The UK’s telecommunications regulator, set out a series of steps aimed at online content providers – predominantly Social Media operators to help protect children when using Internet services. The steps allow OFCOM to enforce the regulations set out in the Online Safety Act 2023 […]

At 14:00 UTC today (7th May 2024) – Law enforcement officers working for the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and partners in the US and Europe, released updates about the LockBit ransomware group as part of their ongoing work to disrupt the threat actor responsible for some of the worlds […]

Ahead of the release of new data regarding LockBit – it looks like they have been pretty busy releasing details of new victims. In the last 24 hours, Lockbit have posted details of almost 60 new victims, including: Could this be LockBits last-ditch two-finger salute to the upcoming NCA release […]

Today sees an update about the ongoing LockBit saga. Readers of my posts over the last year will know that I have written many times about the antics of this threat actor, and some of the devastating attacks they have been responsible for. My last post concerning them was the […]

In the previous post, I covered the SMB protocol and how it has become one of the most widely used protocols in modern networks in one form or another regardless of operating system used. This post covers the flip side of the love / hate relationship it has in the […]

Server Message Block (SMB) is one of the most important protocols in computer history – it facilitates the sharing of multiple resources in IT networks – printers, computers, files, and much more. It is one of the most widely used protocols in modern networks. It’s also a protocol that has […]

Today (29th April 2024) sees the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) become enforced in the UK – something that should help make consumer devices safer to use. Initially developed in 2022, it was one of the first Acts enshrined into UK law by King Charles after his […]

Mandiant – the Google-owned Cyber Security company have released an in-depth exposé on the Russian threat actor group known as APT44, more commonly known as Sandworm. The full 40-page report can be downloaded from the link above, but for those who prefer a shorter read – I cover the salient […]

For those who don’t keep up to date with the world of IT – back in late March, Andres Freund, a developer working at Microsoft noticed some odd behaviour in the login process of an SSH connection they used to connect securely to a Linux server so began investigating the […]

Saturday the 28th October 2023 was a very dark day for The British Library – it was a day that they are still trying to fully recover from, it was the day they found out they had been compromised by the Rhysida ransomware gang. On the 8th March 2024, the […]