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Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 59. This week we’re going to do a review of 2020.

Demystifying Cyber Security – Ransomware – A webinar series for #CyberSecMonth – October 2020. Taking the mystery out of some of the main cyber topics that small businesses need to deal with every day. I will take a topic each week and give some background and guidance on it.

Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 46. This week we’re going to talk about securing backup servers.

Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 43. This week we’re going to talk about Paying The Ransom.

Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 34. This week we’re going to talk about a ransomware case study.

Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 32. This week we’re going to talk about Ransomware incidents … again.

How did you hear about the Luas Ransomware incident? Was it on the news? Online? Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Or did you happen to visit the website to check some fare information and get confronted by a very basic ransom demand.

Some businesses that are affected by a Ransomware incident, make a decision to pay the criminals in order to recover their data. This is usually because they believe it is more expensive to go through the recovery process. If they have poor or non-existent backups, then that may very well be the case, so they…

I want to come back to this topic on how to deal with Ransomware. This is because I keep meeting business people in the training that I deliver who, either know of somebody or have themselves, suffered a Ransomware incident.

You probably can’t have missed the reports about the cyber-Armageddon that are circulating today. Two very significant vulnerabilities have been found in the processor chips that are used by nearly every single computer, tablet, phone and smart toaster.

I don’t see many people who make predictions for the coming year actually come back to review what they predicted. I’m not one of those though, so here is my review. I’ve included the original text below in blue, but the full article for my 2017 predictions is here.

I received a dodgy e-mail on my personal account yesterday. I’m surprised the GMail spam filters didn’t catch it and flag it for me. Like last weeks story, this message looked kinda plausible.

It was revealed a couple of days ago that a widely used application had a backdoor in it. A specific version of CCleaner, a well known utility for doing housekeeping on computers, had been compromised by evil doers.

What would you expect if you got an e-mail with the subject line of “Security Alert”? How about “Unusual sign-in activity”? You probably expect it to be an e-mail that is trying to raise your awareness about some potential security issue. I’m afraid it is likely not. These are just two examples from the Top…

Maersk Line were one of the biggest victims of the Petya/NotPetya Ransomware worm that struck on 27th June 2017. Here are some details, in case you missed it. Two weeks later, they are still not back to full operational capacity, but they are doing something really well. The are using the critical competence of communication…

Posts Tagged ‘Ransomware’

#WeekendWisdom 059 A Review of 2020

Demystifying Cyber Security – Ransomware

#WeekendWisdom 046 Securing Backup Servers

#WeekendWisdom 043 Paying The Ransom

#WeekendWisdom 032 Ransomware Incidents

Meltdown and Spectre

Review of my 2017 predictions.

Dodgy e-mail that looks legit.

Draughty Backdoor in popular application.

Communication is vital after a disaster.