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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‘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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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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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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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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The MoonBounce UEFI malware hit the headlines due to the novel way it hides from anti-virus software. UEFI malware is on the rise – but what is it, and how can you protect your network from this sophisticated security threat? Securing the Operating System The UEFI standard (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) defines the way
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A SIM swap attack happens when a criminal uses social engineering to gain control of a victim’s mobile phone number so that SMS and calls made to the victim are received by the criminal. This then enables the criminal to impersonate the victim and perpetuate further fraud and attacks. What is a SIM? Mobile phone
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When it comes to security vulnerabilities, they don’t get any worse than the one recently disclosed in the Log4j utility which was awarded the maximum CVSS severity of 10. This is not some theoretical risk, it is an open door to affected systems. The NCSC calls it: ‘potentially the most severe computer vulnerability in years.’
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Europol called Emotet “the world’s most dangerous malware” – and it is back in the security news this week – but what is Emotet, and how can you protect your network from Emotet based attacks? Emotet is the name given to a strain of malware and the cyber-crime organisation that created it. First detected in
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Long considered a theoretical attack, HTTP request smuggling is now ‘soaring in popularity’ according to a new research paper published this month. What is HTTP request smuggling and what risk does it pose to your network? HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS) was first documented back in 2005. It is made possible by the way different web
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