In this 2nd installment of my mini-series about staying safe in an ever-increasing online world, I’m going to take a look at antivirus & anti-malware solutions. Anti-malware vs Antivirus The...
So far in my 365 days of blogs, the biggest majority of my posts have been about the threats that face us when living in a digital world. So I thought it time to focus a bit more on the defensive side...
Ransomware is big business, but for some threat actors, it’s not big enough. A large number of ransomware attacks tend to use the same encryption algorithms, or ones which have only been slightl...
Federal agents in the US have arrested a man from Peekskill, New York who is suspected of being the administrator of the stolen-data sharing website breachForums. The administrator who uses the online...
If you’ve been following my blogs over the last few months, you’ll have spotted a recurring theme in many of them – ransomware. It’s a scourge of modern Inetrnet life and it ca...
Meta, the parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp has released what they say is a new, more modern Cyber Kill Chain – A list of the stages and events by which threat actors prepa...
Google have recently announced that their zero-day research team (Project zero) have discovered and reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in the Exynos chipsets used in Samsung devices. This chipset is...
The Domain Name System (DNS) has been a crucial part of the Internet / WWW since its conception back in 1983. Invented by Paul Mockapetris whilst he was a member of the Information Sciences Institute ...
The perpetrators of ransomware attacks are pretty low with their moral standing, but a recent attack by the BlackCat gang shows that they can sink to some very low depths. In the blog I posted yesterd...
In this blog I’ll cover two breaking events which might be very significant in the coming weeks/months. If you’ve been following my posts over the last few months, you will have noticed a ...