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, […]
Barr Humbug
Unfortunately we will not be talking about the legendary A.G.Barr, Scottish manufacturer of the insanely popular Irn Bru, which until 2009 at least was ‘Made in Scotland from Girders’. No, we will be talking about a distinctly less sweet member of the Barr diaspora, although almost certainly also made from girders, William Barr. For those […]
Government delays final decision on Huawei
Article by Alex Scroxton – ComputerWeekly Culture secretary says he cannot yet make specific decisions about Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s telecoms and mobile networks due to a lack of clarity from the US, effectively green-lighting its use. The government has failed to come to a decision as to whether a full ban should be […]
Mug Shot
Unless you have been participating in one of those tiresome live ‘off the grid’ challenges, and we mean a proper one, not one like these Dutch charlatans whose ‘off grid’ experience includes Internet access and DJ lessons rather than wild boar hunting, sticking and gutting which is proper ‘off grid’ activity in our book, you […]
To Fine, To Serve
Unless you have been stricken with memory loss, brainwashed by positive corporate messaging, or otherwise impaired, you will no doubt recall last year’s announcement that British Airways had lost a truckload of customers’ data which we covered in one of these missives and also updated as the numbers ebbed and flowed. In our update we […]
British Airways Faces $230 Million Fine for 2018 Breach
Article by Kevin Townsend – Security Week UK ICO Shows its Teeth in Fining BA £183 Million for 2018 Breach The UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), announced Monday that it intends to fine British Airways (BA) a total of £183.39 million (just under $230 million) for the 2018 breach that compromised […]
Cyber Security – A special alliance leading the fight against cyber threat.
Last month the United States and United Kingdom commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal historical moment in which the two countries set an unprecedented standard of bilateral cooperation. Churchill and Roosevelt met on numerous occasions during World War II to discuss and deliberate strategy, and their hard work came to fruition on June […]