In their tenth annual Payment Security Report, Verizon reveals the security trends affecting businesses that seek PCI-DSS compliance and cybersecurity lessons applicable to all organisations. This year’s 140 page Payment Security Report from Verizon focuses on the role and challenges of the CISO and how this relates to the performance and security of businesses in […]
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Described as the most sophisticated hack ever – what is the SolarWinds hack and how might it affect your business? SolarWinds provides network monitoring software to thousands of large enterprises and government departments. One of the SolarWinds products, called Orion, was compromised in a supply chain attack, and was then used to deliver Solarigate malware
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Daily GDPR breach notifications are up 20% and fines are up 39% according to a new report. Law firm DLA Piper has published their third annual GDPR Fines and Data Breech Survey which reveals the number of breaches being reported is rising along with the number and level of fines being imposed. In the post-Brexit
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The American CISA has warned they have detected ongoing attacks against several organisations cloud services. The alert from CISA states that: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of several recent successful cyberattacks against various organizations’ cloud services. Threat actors are using phishing and other vectors to exploit poor cyber hygiene practices within
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Three years after the initial warning, Adobe has officially killed off Flash software. In recent years Flash had developed a reputation for being a security risk on many systems due the high number of vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in the software. Now the software reached end-of-life on 31 December 2020 and Adobe will no longer
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Taiwan based Zyxel Networks has issued patches for their enterprise grade firewalls after a hard coded credential vulnerability was discovered by security researchers. The vulnerability provides attackers with root level access over SSH or the Web Administration interface allowing firewall rules to be changed to permit easy access to the network behind the firewall. Zyxel
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A recent court case underlines the importance of good operational security procedures to manage employee and contractor exits to ensure all their access is revoked. A man has been sentenced to two years after deleting 456 virtual machines from Cisco’s infrastructure – 4 months after resigning from the firm. As a result of the malicious
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SolarWinds provides tools used by security and network managers in many of the largest businesses and governments in the world. Since March 2020 hackers inserted their own code into SolarWinds Orion software which was downloaded by some 18,000 customers – providing a backdoor into those customers’ networks. SolarWinds Orion is a network health and performance
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A research paper just published by NortonLifeLock analysed details of app installations on 12 million Android devices and determined that most malware and unwanted apps are actually downloaded from the Google Play store. The research paper examined the installation details of almost 8 million different apps onto 12 million devices during the Autumn of 2019
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On Monday 9th November, Facebook ads started to appear targeting the Campari Group which is still mired in the middle of a ransomware attack. It appears the criminals behind the attack on Campari used a hacked Facebook account to place the ads in order to increase the pressure on Campari to pay the demanded ransom.
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