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CISA Warn of 40 New Actively Exploited Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities This Month So Far

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

Last week saw the addition of 39 known exploited cybersecurity vulnerabilities to the CISA catalogue, bringing the total added in June so far to 40. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a branch of the US government, released an alert on Wednesday, to make people aware of the threats posed by these vulnerabilities, which […]

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10 Common Security Weaknesses and How To Defend Against Them

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

The mistakes we make and how to fix them – a new report co-authored by the NCSC reveals the 10 most common security weaknesses exploited by hackers. A joint security alert from the National Cyber Security Centre UK (NCSC-UK) was released earlier this month, co-authored by cybersecurity bodies from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and

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Phishing Report 2022: Which Individuals Are Most at Risk

Articles / Ian Reynolds

In 2022 phishing will be bigger than it ever has been, with sophisticated new methods meaning that an increasing number of people are falling for attackers’ tricks, regardless of their tech literacy. Since May 2021, Google Threat Analysis Group has blocked 1.6 million phishing emails and according to the FBI, phishing is currently the most

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Top 15 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities for 2021

Articles, Cyber Essentials, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

The 15 most targeted security vulnerabilities of 2021 have just been published in a joint advisory from the NCSC. These are the main ways hackers are attacking businesses around the world. Cybersecurity authorities across multiple nations co-authored this publication to provide insight into the exploited vulnerabilities and offer mitigation strategies to deal with the identified

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How to improve your supply chain security

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

The security of every business is dependent on the security of its suppliers. From the PCs on peoples desks, to the servers in cloud, the firewalls in the office and the experts that connect to your network to tune your database or manage your servers. A security failing at any of these suppliers could allow

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What is PIPEDREAM malware?

Articles, Infrastructure / Ian Reynolds

Since Stuxnet was used to damage Iran’s nuclear aspiration in 2010, there has been a dawning realisation that malware is not just a threat in cyberspace – it can cause real world damage to industrial systems and even have fatal consequences. In 2016 Russia used Industroyer malware to turn off the electricity in Kyiv –

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What is a Use After Free Vulnerability?

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

‘Use After Free’ is the name given to security vulnerabilities that occur because of a problem with the way an application is managing its memory. When one part of a program attempts to use some memory that another part of the program has released because it is no longer needed the application may crash, produce

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Why Asset Management is important for Cybersecurity

Articles, Information Assurance, Infrastructure / Ian Reynolds

As a security manager you can only protect systems that you know about. Asset Management is the art and science of keeping track of all the devices connected to your network so that you can protect them. You can’t protect what you don’t track One of the developments in cybersecurity thinking in recent years has

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What does the Russian invasion of Ukraine mean for UK cyber security?

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

Russia’s deployment of troops into Ukraine is the physical side of a war that has been raging for some time in cyber space. How might your UK business get caught in the crossfire of this cyber war? On the 15th and 16th of February, the Ukranian banking sector was subject to a distributed denial of

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The evolving risks from Ransomware

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

This week the NCSC issued a warning of the evolving risks posed by Ransomware, with increasingly sophisticated techniques being used to extort money from businesses around the world. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) along with the USA’s CISA and Australia’s ACSC have produced a joint cyber security advisory on the increased globalised threat of

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CISA Warn of 40 New Actively Exploited Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities This Month So Far

10 Common Security Weaknesses and How To Defend Against Them

Phishing Report 2022: Which Individuals Are Most at Risk

Top 15 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities for 2021

How to improve your supply chain security

What is PIPEDREAM malware?

What is a Use After Free Vulnerability?

Why Asset Management is important for Cybersecurity

What does the Russian invasion of Ukraine mean for UK cyber security?

The evolving risks from Ransomware

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