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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At the turn of midnight at the end of October, parts of Windows 11 suddenly stopped working. The reason why the Snipping Tool, touch keyboard and emoji panel refused to run was an expired certificate. Microsoft rushed out an emergency fix to restore some of the broken parts of Windows 11 on the 5th November.
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At the RSA Conference in 2004, Bill Gates predicted the death of the password. 17 years later Microsoft is finally bringing that prediction to pass with the roll out of passwordless logins for Microsoft 365 services. How does it work, and is it secure? Bill Gates said in 2004: “There is no doubt that over
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Microsoft’s 2021 Digital Defense Report provides a useful summary of the current and emerging threat landscape for Security Managers and CISOs. Read on for our summary of the key lessons from this year’s report. Cyber crime for Dummies We have seen increased industrialisation and commercialisation of cyber-crime over the last year. Criminal gangs are
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The 2021 Data Breach Investigations report provides insights from the analysis of over 29,000 real world cyber security incidents from 2020 helping Security Managers track the evolving behaviour and tactics of threat actors. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report has become a regular fixture on the annual cyber security calendar over the last 14 years.
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Business Email Compromise, and its evil brother CEO Fraud, are both email based fraud attacks that seek to trick the victim into paying a fake invoice or transferring or diverting funds through some other kind of deception. Read on to learn how to protect your business from BEC Fraud. What is BEC fraud? Business Email
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The Cybersecurity Maturity Model provides a way for organisations to assess their cyber security processes and capabilities with a focus on defending against Advanced Persistent Threat actors. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) was developed by Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins at the request of the US Department of Defence and was launched in March
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The last 12 months has seen a notable increase in the number and scale of supply chain attacks. The global interconnected market has opened unexpected access to many organisations through the suppliers they trust. Headline grabbing attacks at organisations like SolarWinds, Kaseya and Mimecast are just the tip of the iceberg – the number of
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The UK National Cyber Security Centre has issued a stark warning of the dangers posed by an ongoing Russian campaign of cyber espionage and attacks against enterprise systems and cloud environments in Europe and around the world. The Cyber Security Advisory is a joint creation of the NCSC working with the NSA, CISA and FBI
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