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 con...
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 compromise...
The other day, I posted about AlphaV and their attack against Change Healthcare. (link) Just 2 days later, the posting on the AlphaV website disappeared – an indicator that a ransom had been pai...
AlphaV – the cyber-criminal gang temporarily disrupted last year by the FBI have been steadily working their way back to being a major player in the ransomware field. Their latest attack has bee...
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news recently, you’ll know by now that the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), aided by law enforcement teams from the FBI and Europol have claimed...
Yesterday (12th February), saw the release of a new set of guidance documents by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The guidance concerns vulnerability management, and is aimed at a wide range...
The production environment of the popular remote desktop app AnyDesk has been compromised with the threat actors stealing source code and private code signing keys. The German company reported the bre...
Readers of my posts over the last 12 months or so will know that I’m not a fan of the way organisations track and profile us as we go about our daily lives online (and in some cases offline too)...
*Mother of all Breaches Reports are circulating online about the discovery of a data dump of breached records totaling 26 Billion records spread across 3,800 folders with a file size in excess of 12TB...
Late last year Russian state hackers started a campaign to access Microsoft systems, and on January 12th this year managed to gain access to a test network into their corporate network and compromise ...