Peebles Media Group is suing a former employee who fell victim to a CEO Fraud email which cost her employer almost £200,000. CEO Fraud is a common type of cyber-crime which targets businesses. Because the CEO or Managing Director of a firm is easy to identify – often being listed on the company website or […]
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The popular Network Attached Storage devices from Taiwanese vendor QNAP are the subject of an active malware attack. QNAP has issued a security advisory warning that the attack is underway and offering an updated version of the QNAP Malware Remover to resolve the issue. The active evidence of the malware includes adding hundreds of entries
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The February 2019 Exchange Quarterly updates (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2019/02/12/released-february-2019-quarterly-exchange-updates/) from Microsoft includes a fix for the NTLM relay vulnerability we reported last week. The fix changes the way Exchange Web Services operates in order to remove the ability for a man in the middle attack to capture and replay the authentication traffic and so escalate their privileges
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Microsoft has recently issued a security advisory following the discovery of an NTLM relay attack vector against on-premises Exchange servers. An attacker who is able to intercept the NTLM authentication in an NTLM relay attack, is able to discover the Exchange Server’s credentials and potentially elevate their privileges to a Domain Administrator. This would allow
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The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a favoured tool for many systems administrators, as it allows a connection to be made to another computer on your network and see the screen and use the mouse and keyboard as if you were physically sat in front of it. This means that for many, if not most,
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Security updates and patches can literally be thing of nightmares for many Systems Administrators. To patch or not to patch – that is always the question. From a security perspective, security patches should always be applied to increase the organisation’s resilience to hackers and malware, but with many organisations lacking IT resources and having ever-decreasing
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Remote access attacks allow authentication bypass and remote code execution Cisco has just released urgent patches for their RV320 and RV325 WAN VPN routers. The patches resolve two critical vulnerabilities in the router’s firmware: CVE-2019-1653 – allows a remote attacker to get sensitive device configuration details without a password (including the hashed passwords for all
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A wave of DNS hijack attacks has been sweeping across Europe, the Middle-East and America according to recently published reports from FireEye and Cisco. While the attacks are creative and sophisticated, the root attack vector is often a simple credential compromise to the DNS control panel of an organisation’s domain name registrar. The scale of
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51% Attack succeeds and over $1million Ethereum Classic is double spent The cornerstone design assumption in blockchain systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is that there is a large community pool of honest participants who mutually concur and authenticate blockchain events. Page 3 of Satoshi Nakamoto’s original whitepaper titled: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”
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Security research firm Embedi has recently published a report on the Marvell Avastar Wifi chip used in many devices including Microsoft Surface and Surface Pro, Samsung Chromebooks and some Samsung phones and the Sony Playstation 4 to name but a few. The flaw in Marvell’s implementation of the ThreadX operating system running on the Wifi
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