Current Threats and Exploits Crypto Miners Are Sneaking To Your Networks – Despite dropping off a little in the news this month, crypto currency is still a much sought after commodity for many. Attackers are looking to cash in on this to do anything possible in order to make good use of your idle CPU […]
Over the past month, we have seen a number of threats, vulnerabilities, and spear phishing attacks affecting organisations worldwide. Read on for a summary of these events to help you assess their implication on your environment. Current Threats and Exploits Refined Exploits Targeting Legacy Windows Servers and PCs: – The vulnerabilities discovered in SMBv1 servers […]
Current Threats and Exploits Meltdown? Spectre? Where Can We Find Out More? – Early January saw the industry start the year with a bang as rumors of an Intel bug being released online. Google’s Project Zero quickly announced on the 3rd of January that nearly all modern processors are affected by a vulnerability that when […]
Over the past month, we have seen a number of threats, vulnerabilities, and spear phishing attacks affecting organisations worldwide. Read on for a summary of these events to help you assess their implication on your environment. Threats and Exploits Mailsploit Mailsploit Allows Spoofed Mails to Fool DMARC. Mailsploit is a collection of vulnerabilities in various […]
No matter the protections you have in place, the last defence for cyber security rests with the end user. But how do you educate in a respectful, engaging way? David M Williams, CIO, tried out Shearwater’s Phishing Awareness Training & Simulation Solution, Phriendly Phishing, built on this very premise, finding it reduced risk and exposure to phishing […]
We are very excited about Microsoft’s announcement that the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has certified a number of Microsoft’s Australian based online services offerings. The majority of these newly certified services are simply not available from any other cloud service. With these certifications, Australian hospitals, educators and government agencies at federal, state and local level […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! December 2016 was full of the usual Phishing, Malvertising, weak security of IoT devices and large breaches of user accounts that the rest of the year had delivered. If you have a Yahoo email account or an email service that is run through Yahoo’s mail service, please change […]
The ransomware threat continued to thrive with new variants, payloads and even using social media as a delivery platform. A vulnerability found in a German ISPs router caused havoc in late November with almost 1 million users knocked into darkness as the result of a recent increase in Mirai worm activity. Social engineering was brought […]