BUY A VIRUS ON THE DARK WEB A cybercriminal is looking to buy a virus on the Dark Web. That’s going to be expensive, right? Wrong. Someone who has less…
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VESTAS HACKED If the likes of Colonial Pipeline, SolarWinds and Kaseya being hit by severe ransomware attacks this year wasn’t enough, yet another U.S. company has fallen prey to hacking…
YOUR INDUSTRY AND CYBER RISK Everybody is vulnerable to some form of cyber risk, whether it be a DDoS on a website, a ransomware attack, falling prey to a phishing…
GO DADDY HACKED On 17 November, web hosting and website domain registrar company, Go Daddy, was subject to a massive cyberattack that saw 1.2 million active and inactive WordPress users…
EXPLOIT AS A SERVICE Corporates and enterprises into cloud computing are either familiar with or use SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, or a combination of the three. That’s all good. According…
ROBINHOOD IS THE LATEST RANSOMWARE VICTIM On 8th November, Robinhood announced that 5 days earlier it had been subject to a data breach in which the email addresses of 5…
DDoS SURGES ACROSS THE GLOBE The 3rd quarter of 2021 saw an unprecedented increase in DDoS (Distributed-Denial-of Service) attacks worldwide. While companies in the United States were the most targeted,…
CYBERSECURITY WELLBEING IS UNDER ATTACK In the wake of the high-profile cyberattacks on Colonial Pipeline, Solar Winds and Acer this year, and that of Travelex in October 2020, could things…
REVIL NO LONGER THE RANSOMWARE DEVIL Reuters reported last Thursday that the Russian-led cybercriminal mastermind group, REvil, had been busted through the cooperation of the FBI, Secret Service, and Cyber…
PHISHING IS THE PRIMO CYBERSECURITY CULPRIT Forget, for a moment, about other forms of cybersecurity threats such as inadequate antivirus protection or using weak passwords. This week, let’s focus on…
