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WordPress Whacked, the UK Says No, Talking About Regeneration, Turbo-Charged MicroSoft Password Hackers, Solara's Expensive Phishing Oops, and SimpleHelp's Huge Holes. It's CISO Intelligence for Friday 17th January 2025
Website Security

WordPress Whacked, the UK Says No, Talking About Regeneration, Turbo-Charged MicroSoft Password Hackers, Solara's Expensive Phishing Oops, and SimpleHelp's Huge Holes. It's CISO Intelligence for Friday 17th January 2025

Today's topics: the WordPress infiltration danger, the UK refusing ransomware extortion payouts, HexaLocker upscaling, MS vs the newest high-speed password hacking toy, the painful cost of not reinforcing cyber defenses, and remote support access tools needing to plug their own holes.
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Jonathan Care
Security vs Ethics, Old Botnet: New Playbook, Old School Espionage, Hackers Learn Quickly, and Patching the Patches. It's Your Friday 9th January 2025 Edition of CISO Intelligence!
Ethical Cybersecurity Practices

Security vs Ethics, Old Botnet: New Playbook, Old School Espionage, Hackers Learn Quickly, and Patching the Patches. It's Your Friday 9th January 2025 Edition of CISO Intelligence!

Today's topics: balancing the trust factor against corporate security, a dangerous new field for an old adversary, state-sponsored espionage and the possible global fallout, hackers keeping up with the latest security measures, and when even the best have to scramble. Thank goodness it’s Friday!
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Jonathan Care
Mimicry is Not Always Flattery, UK Hospitals Bleeding Out, Phishing - Let Us Count the Ways, Does No Server Mean No Security, and AI Fakery Sight Big Business: We got many rivers to cross in CISO Intelligence for Friday 6th December 2024!
Incident Response

Mimicry is Not Always Flattery, UK Hospitals Bleeding Out, Phishing - Let Us Count the Ways, Does No Server Mean No Security, and AI Fakery Sight Big Business: We got many rivers to cross in CISO Intelligence for Friday 6th December 2024!

In today's edition, we take a look at a nasty little ransomware called Mimic, place our stethoscope to the chest of the UK health system, and unleash our ID in an invite to cyber mayhem! We also take a look at serverless security, and how fake news campaigns are targeting the corporate workplace.
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Jonathan Care
Telco Engineers get lifted, Hackers get hacked, Logs go Walkabout, Minimum Security Standards hard to see with the naked eye, GEICO gets fined, and Lionel Richie, we miss ya. All in all, it must be CISO Intelligence for Thursday, 5th December 2024.
Insider Risk

Telco Engineers get lifted, Hackers get hacked, Logs go Walkabout, Minimum Security Standards hard to see with the naked eye, GEICO gets fined, and Lionel Richie, we miss ya. All in all, it must be CISO Intelligence for Thursday, 5th December 2024.

Today, we take a look at the consequences of becoming a spy for China, what happens when real security experts strike back at the hackers, the outcome of Cloudflare letting logs leak, and what minimum security standards are evolving into (Don't worry, it's an incredibly low bar!).
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Jonathan Care