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Top 15 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities for 2021

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Cyber Essentials, Information Assurance | 6 May, 2022 | 0

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 identifiedRead more

How to improve your supply chain security

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Information Assurance | 25 April, 2022 | 0

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 allowRead more

NCSC Updates Guidance on Russian cyber threat

By Mark Faithfull | News | 21 April, 2022 | 0

The NCSC has issued updated guidance on the evolving threat from Russian state actors and cyber criminals due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) from the cybersecurity authorities in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand warns that: “Evolving intelligence indicates that the Russian government is exploring options forRead more

Stolen Nvidia certs uses to sign malware

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 16 March, 2022 | 0

When the LAPSUS$ ransomware group broke into the network of Nvidia, the data they stole included two code signing certificates which are now being used to sign malware to help it bypass security defences. In order to prove that an application or driver is genuine and really does come from the named developer, a digitalRead more

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

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Information Assurance | 24 February, 2022 | 0

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 ofRead more

Microsoft upgrades security of Office and Windows

By Mark Faithfull | News, Tools, Vulnerabilities | 16 February, 2022 | 0

Microsoft has announced several steps they are taking to improve the default security of Office document and Windows systems by protecting them against malicious macros and LOL-bins attacks.   Microsoft Office to block macros for all Internet documents Microsoft is changing the default behaviour of Office applications that can contain VBA macros. Currently when aRead more

What Log4j teaches us about supply chain risks

By Mark Faithfull | News, Tools | 22 December, 2021 | 0

According to research from Google’s Open Source Insights Team, the Apache Log4j vulnerabilities affect 4% of the projects in the Java ecosystem – over 17,000 packages in the Mavern Central repository alone. Log4j is a popular library that provides logging services to many thousands of Java based applications. Earlier this month security teams and systemRead more

How to defend against the RATdispenser

By Mark Faithfull | News, Tools | 1 December, 2021 | 0

A new report from HP’s Threat Research Blog provides details of an evasive Javascript loader that gets passed security tools 89% of the time. Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are a class of malware that is designed to gain persistent access to the target computer system, and by leveraging elevation of privilege vulnerabilities gain administrator rightsRead more

What is a PrintJack attack?

By Mark Faithfull | News | 24 November, 2021 | 0

A new research paper looks at the security risks posed by the printers found in most offices and homes – and coins the term PrintJack to mean the hijacking of a printer by a threat actor. The research paper outlines three types of attack that could leverage a compromised printer.  The standard TCP/IP port usedRead more

Managing Certificate Expiry

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Infrastructure | 10 November, 2021 | 0

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.Read more

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