Optus, Medibank and Latitude, YOU are responsible for your clients data
Read More: Optus, Medibank and Latitude, YOU are responsible for your clients dataOptus, Medibank and Latitude, YOU are responsible for your clients data Just the same as all businesses who hold sensitive personal information, you may not want to admit this but you are responsible for your clients data security where their sensitive data is stored on your platform. How do the above machines stay safe? From…
CVE-2023-23397: Microsoft outlook vuln
Read More: CVE-2023-23397: Microsoft outlook vulnCVE-2023-23397: Microsoft Outlook Vuln: elevation of privilege vulnerability leads to NTLM credential theft: Very quick and short post today, I have already been contacted today around mitigations for this vulnerability and wanted to get some quick steps out early incase your business is unsure how to check whether you are at risk. My post assumes…
Follina 0 day – Office lets the bad guy waltz right in, WRTF!
Read More: Follina 0 day – Office lets the bad guy waltz right in, WRTF!Follina 0 day – Microsoft Office Macro protection eaten for breakfast!, those of you who know me, know that I embrace Microsoft Defender as a security tool that is top notch, not just my view but the view of the analysts that report on cyber security as well, here for example with the Mitre Evaluations for 2022 where Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 shows its ‘chops’ and performs like the participants on “Dancing with the Stars”, not the ones who get booted early on, of course!
Easy Fail – Australian critical infrastructure
Read More: Easy Fail – Australian critical infrastructureThe Easy Fail in critical infrastructure should have all of us worried right now, whether it is the water being turned off, the traffic lighting systems that we all rely on to get around the cities we live in or much worse, the Electricity that we used to power our homes and provide us warmth and comfort (who am I kidding here, internet access and powered on devices are the only thing I care about) – there is a huge problem waiting around the corner for all of us.
Lapsus$: Microsoft and Okta “breaches”
Read More: Lapsus$: Microsoft and Okta “breaches”Lapsus$: Microsoft and Okta “breaches”: When our children start being involved in masterminding cyber “breaches”, the methods change………. Microsoft and Okta were attacked in the same way as my 9 year old daughter uses when she wants more Roblox time……. 30-40 messages in short succession until I relent (or I put imessage into silent mode),…
CS Energy Breach
Read More: CS Energy BreachCS Energy in Queensland, Australia recently made the headlines when a breach was detected and thwarted before any harm was done to their customers. I want to congratulate the response from CS Energy’s cyber security team, they clearly detected and responded to a potentially catastrophic situation in a controlled and timely manner, great work! This…
It all adds up!
Read More: It all adds up!I had no idea at all! over 100 notifiable and probable “State Based” significant hacks to October 2021 – either against government orgs or with a value of more than $1 million. Four of those were against Australian government orgs and one against a New Zealand Government org. One of our business partner orgs who…
Sinclair Broadcasting Breach
Read More: Sinclair Broadcasting BreachStory: Another ‘murican Fortune 500 company breached and affected by a Ransomware attack. With Broadcasters, retailers (online and store), NBN service providers, BNPL, Transport, Tourism (lol), some utilities etc etc….. there is an immediate cost to your business profits from an outage, customers are not patient and will go elsewhere immediately and buy their product…
Advanced Managed Detect Response (AMDR)
CSF framework: 2. Protect; 3. Detect; 4. Respond. Cyber Maturity Level:⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read More: Advanced Managed Detect Response (AMDR)MDR stands for is the next generation of cyber security Detect and Response solutions in the market to target breaches and other malicious activity, eXtended Detection and Response XDR stood for an extended range of detection capability (Network and other devices/ sources of data) and AMDR will take over where XDR lets go.
CSF framework: 2. Protect; 3. Detect; 4. Respond. Cyber Maturity Level:⭐️⭐️⭐️
Customer ignores MSP advice and is breached?
Read More: Customer ignores MSP advice and is breached?In the case of ever increasing and tightening reporting requirements and breached clients potentially being sued for damages, it is your reputation as the MSP that will be affected in a blame game scenario.