Who monitors employee monitoring when AI is in the driving seat?
Article by Davey Winder – SC Magazine Enterprises are increasingly monitoring employees by way of their email and social media usage. Given that increasingly this kind of monitoring is being done by AI-powered technologies, there are ethical questions that have to be asked. So SC Media UK asked them. When Gartner surveyed large organisations last […]
BLUEKEEP II, III, IV AND V REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES AND DHCP ‘WORMABLE’ VULNERABILITIES
Priority: High Executive Summary: Microsoft have discovered 4 new remote code execution vulnerabilities in their Remote Desktop Services, similar to the recently patched ‘BlueKeep’ RDP vulnerability, affecting a number of Windows versions (see Affected Products for more information)[1-4]. The original BlueKeep vulnerability was reported by ITC in a previous Threat Horizon: https://itcsecure.com/remote-desktop-services-wormable-vulnerability/ The security flaws, […]
It’s all about the vector Vernon
Warning! This is a bit of a long one, a holiday special, but there is a prize for the most eagle-eyed readers. Details below. There we were post/during/pending holiday mode, rather hoping we would be resting on our laurels, when a wave of cyber breaches brought us to our senses just as we were trying […]
SWAPGS CVE-2019-1125
Priority: High Executive Summary: Microsoft and Red Hat have released a security notification stating that there is a new potential exploit that utilizes a new variant of the Spectre side-channel vulnerability, it has been identified as CVE-2019-1125. This vulnerability affects Intel CPUs built since 2012 running x86 and x64 architectures and can allow an unprivileged […]
Is your Darktrace investment delivering security?
Make more from your Darktrace investment Businesses are investing heavily in behavioural analytics and artificial intelligence as insider threat, whether malicious or not, is one of your biggest cyber risks. 5 simple steps to make more from your Darktrace investment Do you already have Darktrace? If so, how do you use it? Are you getting […]
Giving third party cyber risk a second thought
Article in Financial Director Companies need to comprehend the danger of third party cyber risk. News headlines stating that cyber attacks against the financial services industry have increased 1,000 percent from 2017 to 2018 would have undoubtedly caused panic among finance professionals across all sectors. The data, which was obtained by tax and consultancy firm […]
Sonic Boom
It has been an un-seasonably frenetic week in the Cyber Security coal mines this week, so much so that this week’s rant is going out a day early, for reasons obvious, as you will see below. As ever we will try to cover off as much as we can but are always ready to help, […]