Removable media still presents one of the greatest threats; this post outlines one solution of how to deal with it properly.
Category: global risks
Cyber insurance versus insurance companies
Cyber insurance is becoming every increasingly important product for most organizations. Finding an insurance policy, and an underwriter to understand the risk is very difficult.
Finding your next employer on the dark web?
With a potential bandwidth of the deep web increasing, it turns more and more into a profitable marketplace. Most recently, employers have sprung up, looking for qualified personnel. Work without the pension scheme’s, 9 to 5, and other inhibiting factors.
About John Cryan and the nonsense of the cashless society
Cache currency is a blessing for law-enforcement because it allows them to trace back the origins to a crime. When criminals are forced to resort to crypto currency, the game changes.
Mitigating sophisticated phishing attacks
The next generation of phishing attacks is there. Brace yourselves, and mitigate!
The case of the spying paper shredder
Cybercrime comes in many forms industrial espionage is one of them. Today, we are not even safe from paper shredders in the offices anymore.
The most complex case of CEO Fraud… yet; and how to mitigate it.
CEO fraud is one of the most devious forms of cybercrime, and social engineering. The most complex form was experienced, and the risk for future attacks was mitigated.
Why it’s a good idea to isolate EOL applications/software with insufficient patches, and how to do it
Software that it’s not regularly updated presents at risk. However, sometimes it is out of our influence whether or not a software remains up to date. If the software vendor does not provide updates and patches in time, and option to deal with such situations is to isolate software in virtual machines etc.
Why you don’t want your RJ 45 sockets available in the wild
This post is about the security risks of having exposed RJ 45 sockets and your organization.
European Parliament: Special Committee on Terrorism > Brief by Lars Hilse on the risks of Cyber Terrorism
In July 2018, I was invited to provide a briefing to the Special Committee on Terrorism of the European Parliament about the risks of cyber terrorism on critical infrastructure and public spaces.