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(31/05/23) Blog 151 – A cautionary tale of default credentials

We all know that we should change any and all default credentials on a system to something strong and safe right? Well sometimes when people set up systems quickly to test something, or to have a play...

Mark
31/05/2023
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(30/05/23) Blog 150 – Capita update – many thousands affected over data breach

Hundreds of thousands of people are being warned that they could have been affected by the March attack on pensions administrator Capita after approximately 90 separate organisations reach out to the ...

Mark
30/05/2023
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(29/05/23) Blog 149 – .zip domains already being used for phishing

Earlier this month, I posted about the new .zip TLD which had been opened up for sale by google, and the issues it would inevitably bring. Well, it hasn’t taken long for criminal gangs to start ...

Mark
29/05/2023
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(28/05/23) Blog 148 – Dodgy Domain Decline

In their quest to protect Internet users, Meta has issued a lawsuit against Freenom – a domain registrar based in Amsterdam. The reason for the case is the alleged history of the company ignorin...

Mark
28/05/2023
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(27/05/23) Blog 147 – CosmicEnergy malware targeting OT systems

Russian cybersecurity company Rostelecom-Solar has been linked to a new malware strain which targets industrial control systems (ICS). Mandiant – the US-based, Google-cloud subsidiary announced ...

Mark
27/05/2023
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(26/05/23) Blog 146 – SAS (no not that one) hit by ransomware attack

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has been targeted with a ransomware attack which saw its customer facing website and app taken offline for over 24hrs. The attack on Wednesday (24/05/23) is the second atta...

Mark
26/05/2023
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(25/05/23) Blog 145 – Vulnerability discovered in oAuth module

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in a widely used module used to implement the security authentication technology oAuth. The vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2023-28131 and is related...

Mark
25/05/2023
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(24/05/23) Blog 144 – DDoS attack still a force to be reckoned with

Microsoft has released a report detailing Distributed Denial of Service attacks and it makes it quite plain that although this type of attack is quite old, it still has some impact on targeted victims...

Mark
24/05/2023
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(23/05/23) Blog 143 – Say goodbye to the padlock

Users of the Google Chrome browser (and possibly other browsers based on Chromium) will see a change in how the browser identifies encrypted websites later this yesr. Google has plans to retire the pa...

Mark
23/05/2023
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(22/05/23) Blog 142 – Captia have a new cyber issue

It really is not a good time to be a Capita cyber security team member – hot on the heals of the ever-continuing saga of their March ransomware attack, the company has not been taken to task by ...

Mark
22/05/2023
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