While many cyber security attacks are driven by criminal organisations looking to make a pay day, the APT41 hacking groups – who allegedly have close ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government – have been running a sophisticated campaign targeting manufacturing, research and development firms. Their aim? To make off with intellectual property…
Criminals are constantly coming up with novel techniques to launch attacks and there’s a new phishing technique available to them that’s a terrifyingly convincing. Users have been told for years to double check domain names, look for padlocks to confirm encryption is enabled and that using SSO (Single-Sign On) services is a good thing –…
IT technicians and support providers have long advised that users remove any applications they don’t need and never install any without good reason. Historically the reasoning was that it was to improve performance and reduce the impact of buggy software and conflicts. While the historic reasoning is still valid, stripping applications and keeping operating systems…
SolarWinds touts its Orion enterprise monitoring software as providing a single pane of glass solution, that has quickly turned in to a single glass of pain. A sophisticated supply chain attack against the product has resulted in at least one – and almost certainly hundreds more – high profile breaches, including FireEye, a respected cyber…
