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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

Azure developers targeted in supply chain attack

By Mark Faithfull | News, Tools | 30 March, 2022 | 0

Last week over 200 malicious packages were discovered in the npm registry targeting Azure developers with PII stealing malware. Reported by security firm JFrog, the malicious packages were uploaded to npm in a sort of typosquatting attack which targeted packages within the @azure scope. The attack method is simple: the attacker creates a malicious packageRead more

Npm sabotaged by Ukraine protest

By Mark Faithfull | News | 23 March, 2022 | 0

Earlier this month, the Vue.js JavaScript framework was subject to a supply chain attack via the npm ecosystem.  The node-ipc package was sabotaged by its creator and was pulled into other people’s projects resulting in anti-war messages being displayed to users and, in some cases, data destruction. Node-ipc is a popular module used in theRead 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

What is Moonbounce Malware?

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Information Assurance | 29 January, 2022 | 0

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 wayRead more

Blacksmith brings down the Rowhammer

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 17 November, 2021 | 0

Blacksmith is a new kind of Rowhammer attack that has been proved to successfully bypass existing Rowhammer protections in modern DDR4 memory chips – allowing researchers to extract security secrets and change memory contents on victim computers. What is Rowhammer? Modern computer memory chips are physically very dense – with billions of memory cells (eachRead more

What is a Trojan Source attack?

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 3 November, 2021 | 0

Trojan Source is a new kind of source code and supply chain attack that causes the source code reviewed by a human to be different from the actual software generated by the compiler – meaning the behaviour of the software will not match what the source code appears to say. In 2000, a phishing attackRead more

Javascript supply chain attack hits millions of users

By Mark Faithfull | News, Tools, Vulnerabilities | 27 October, 2021 | 0

A javascript library downloaded millions of times each week was compromised in a supply chain attack which targeted the npm software registry. npm describes itself as the worlds largest software registry, and is used to host and share thousands of open source and private software projects. The javascript library in question is used by companiesRead more

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