Security Information and Event Management – SIEM – is the ability to collate and analyse events from across the network in real time in order to detect security incidents and attacks. Many organisations first encounter SIEM when it becomes a compliance exercise in order meet the requirements of a security framework such as PCI-DSS or […]
Fileless malware attacks have increased over 300% in 2019. What is fileless malware and how does it work? According to their mid-year Cybersecurity report, Trend Micro asserts that fileless malware attacks have increased 365% over the same period the previous year. In order to understand why this is increasing and how fileless malware works, we
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As professionals in the technical discipline of Information Technology, it can be easy to forget that the risks that we need to guard against are more than purely technical. While it is true that patches need to be applied, security baselines followed, and firewalls configured – the job does not end there. For many organisations,
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Reading about the latest hacks by alleged nation state sponsored groups from China or Russia may make for interesting lunchtime reading. But do these groups pose a real threat to the typical business? Many security managers ask themselves: Do I really need to worry about nation state actors? In this article, we will answer that
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What is the cyber kill chain and how can it help shape your security policy? The idea of the cyber kill chain was first proposed by computer scientists at the defence contractor Lockheed Martin in 2011. Given the background of the business, it is not surprising that their approach to defining a cyber-attack was heavily
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The number of cyber attacks in the UK is continuing to rise and small businesses are continuing to bore the brunt of these attacks. In fact, it is estimated that small businesses in the UK are targeted by 65,000 cyber attacks per day. Thankfully, the majority of these attacks are unsuccessful. However, a worrying number
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The CWE top 25 is a list of the most common software defects that give rise to CVE being reported. Mitre, the organisation behind the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, has scanned some 25,000 CVE reports logged within their database and the NIST National Vulnerability Database in order to compile the list for 2019. By
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Vulnerability scanners are tool that identify mis-configured or flawed devices and systems on your network that could be exploited by attackers in order to gain access to your data and systems. In order to successfully infiltrate access your network, an attacker has two questions they want answered: What software and devices are used on the
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Software Supply chain attacks – do you know what you are importing? Many websites and applications routinely import additional code modules from external repositories. These could be javascript libraries for a webpage or source code for an application. Two recent incidents illustrate the risks of supply chain attacks against the code of your applications and
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Nansh0u is a crypto-mining attack which has infected 50,000 MSSQL servers since February 2019 It is notable because its primary attack vector is poor SecOps on the part of victims and not a vulnerability per se First detected by security firm Guardicore, Nansh0u was observed infecting some 700 new servers each day. A study of
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