In a world where attacks on computers are nearly de rigueur at this point, it isn’t much of a surprise that U.S. banks have begun quietly doomsday-prepping for a successful apocalyptic attack on their computers by hackers. The goal is to head off a run on the bank by panicked citizens. Called Sheltered Harbor, the […]

Wiltshire Police has denied reports it suffered a cyber attack in the aftermath of the nerve agent incident. Questions surrounding a potential attack had been raised after staff at Wiltshire Council, with which the force shares an integrated IT service, found parts of the network had been shut down. Council workers were unable to access […]

PowerOPS PowerShell Runspace Portable Post Exploitation Tool aimed at making Penetration Testing with PowerShell “easier” What is it: PowerOPS is an application written in C# that does not rely on powershell.exe but runs PowerShell commands and functions within a powershell runspace environment (.NET). It intends to include multiple offensive PowerShell modules to make the process […]

Organizations believe that today’s cyber threat landscape places them at high risk of cyber attacks. The EY survey of nearly 1,200 C-level leaders of the world’s largest and most recognized organizations examines some of the most urgent concerns about cybersecurity and their efforts to manage them. Findings show that 56% of those surveyed are making […]

This blog explains what GDPR risk really means for your organisation. It is written by our guest blogger, John Strutt, an intelligence analyst and cyber security expert. Intelligence analysts are most likely see GDPR risks and misunderstandings, so we asked John for his take on the impact of GDPR. For a quick summary the changes […]

Earlier this week, a survey of 600 business decision makers across the UK, US, Germany, and Australia by security firm Clearswift revealed how such decision-makers viewed and ranked various forms of cyber-threats that could impact their businesses. A majority (59 percent) of such decision makers said that they viewed phishing emails as the biggest cyber- threat to […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The June cyberattack that paralyzed the computer systems in companies around the world is estimated to have cost the world’s biggest container shipping line between $200 million and $300 million, A.P. Moller-Maersk said Wednesday. The Copenhagen-based group, which was particularly severely affected by the attack, says the impact will first be […]

It’s a great pleasure to be here today with so many representatives from across the Commonwealth and business to celebrate the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit. The first ever Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was back in 1971 in Singapore. But 1971 was an important year for another reason too. That year, computer engineer […]

RUSSIA has infiltrated thousands of British computer networks for cyber attacks, GCHQ and the FBI warned. Spooks warned Russia had targeted millions of US and UK computers to pave way for a major cyber attack In an unprecedented move, the two trans-Atlantic intelligence agencies also issued urgent advice for the compromised to protect themselves. Under […]