Push meet Shove
If you were paying attention last week and used up some of your valuable time on so called ‘Good Friday’, you may recall that we talked about the SNAFU that is Facebook, stumbling from one privacy disaster to another, via facilitating election influence and fraud. In fact we were so bold as to suggest that […]
Hopping Madness
It looks like using third-party supplier connectivity to breach customers is very much back in the picture with the announcement that the technique is being actively used to attack a number of organisations, specifically those which themselves also have access to lots of third-party data, and more interestingly providers of eGift cards and schemes, i.e. […]
Out of the Ecuador
Cometh the hour, leaveth the man. As you will all have seen, it appears that Julian Assange’s time has come. As the Ecuadorian Ambassador to the United Kingdom decided to call time on his asylum, the long arm of the law was waiting and promptly felt his collar, and cuffs for that matter, dragging him […]
Tax Break
As you will all have realised from the seemingly endless blipverts coming out of the ISA punters, the accountants and if you are very unlucky Her Majesty’s Revenue And Customs, it is the end of the tax year this week in the UK. The end of any arbitrary period always presents opportunity for someone. The […]
ITC Secure unveils enhanced US based cyber advisory business
C5 Capital-backed ITC Secure launches new cyber services through Washington D.C. office London and Washington, 2nd April 2019: ITC Secure (ITC), the specialist cyber advisory and managed security service provider (MSSP) has launched a new portfolio of cyber security services through its existing Washington D.C. business. A key part of the expansion into the US […]
Eoin, Eoin, Gone
As our regular readers came to realise 380 weekly blogs ago (or something like that), we are a fairly cynical bunch trying to tread the lines between what is real, what can we do to help, what is just fantasy, let alone Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt industry scaremongering (GDP Argh being a classic case in […]
Silver lining in damning Huawei security report, says former GCHQ officer
Article by Robert Scammell – Verdict 29 March 2019 Huawei is facing renewed criticism after a UK government-led report found “serious vulnerabilities” in its 5G technology – but it’s not all doom and gloom for the Chinese telecommunications giant, a former British intelligence officer has said. Yesterday a report carried out by the UK’s National […]
CISCO SEMIANNUAL SECURITY ADVISORY
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553794080691{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Priority: High Executive Summary: Cisco released its Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication on March 27, 2019. This describes 17 Cisco Security Advisories, covering 19 vulnerabilities in Cisco’s IOS Software and Cisco’s IOS XE Software. These vulnerabilities each have a High Security Impact Rating. If successfully exploited, […]
Industry Reactions to Norsk Hydro Breach: Feedback Friday
Article by Eduard Kovacs – Security Week 22 March 2019 Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that caused disruptions at some of its plants and forced the company to turn to manual processes to fulfill customer orders. The attack appears to have involved file-encrypting ransomware known as LockerGoga. However, Norsk […]
Online financial fraud climbed 27% in 2018 as cybercriminals made off with £393m
Article by Luke Christou – Verdict 21 March 2019 While physical credit card fraud continues to decline, last year saw a sharp increase in the amount of money stolen through online financial fraud incidents. According to a new report titled Fraud: The Facts 2019 published by financial services trade association UK Finance, consumers in the United Kingdom […]