ITC Cyber Peak 2023 – Highlights

Following the ITC Cyber Summit in January we will continue the conversation of how organisations can do more with less. The ITC Cyber Peak takes the complexity out of cyber security for business leaders with the latest practical and operational guidance. Discover how to improve your cyber posture with confidence and gain the agility needed […]

Pro-Russian Hacktivists Preparing Cyber Attack on Western Financial Systems

Several Pro-Russian hacktivists have declared that they plan to launch a large-scale cyber attack on the Western Financial system within the next 48 hours. The three primary groups, KillNet, REvil and Anonymous Sudan, have formed an alliance to prepare and launch a large cyber attack. The alliance reportedly plans to carry out a distributed denial […]

Critical RCE Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls

Several patches have been released by Fortinet to address a critical security vulnerability in its FortiGate Firewalls and FortiProxy SSL-VPN that would allow a threat actor to initialise remote code execution via a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in SSL VPN devices in Forti OS […]

Security awareness is dead (or dying)

Security awareness is dead. Or, at the very least, is dying. Think about it. You have a modern business. Or maybe you’re just trying to keep up with the times. Despite that, you’re still using an approach from 20 years ago to manage your human cyber risk. Huh? Yeah … we NEED to talk! Over 90% of […]

MOVEit Zero-Day Vulnerability

A critical zero-day vulnerability in a secure file transfer software has been declared. “MOVEit” file transfer application by Progress Software Corporation (Progress) has been assigned a critical CVE: CVE-2023-34362. Qualys has classified the CVSS base score as 10 and the CVSS 3.1 base as 9.8. The critical flaw entails severe SQL injection vulnerability that has […]

Russian hackers target UK’s critical infrastructure

Russian hackers are actively looking to target Britain’s critical infrastructure, such as energy and water, with the goal of ‘disrupt or destroy’, a Cabinet Office minister has warned. Hacking groups from Russia have focussed their attention to the UK in recent months, Oliver Dowden mentioned in a speech. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has […]

How to get the most from your security investments

Dave Cartwright is the Head of Technology Operations & Risk/Chief Information Security Officer at Santander International and the keynote speaker at the 2023 ITC Cyber Summit. In this blog, Dave provides his insight on the importance of getting the basics right, how the deployment of multiple security tools can be a challenge, and why throwing […]

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege – CVE-2023-23397

CVE-2023-23397 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 with reports that it is activity being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending a malicious email to a vulnerable version of Outlook with an extended MAPI property with a UNC path to […]