There is no one theme that jumps out this week – except the Google chatbot “is it sentient” story is everywhere – see tomorrow’s weekend read -, but that is just a bit of fun – not cyber security.
The week has been made up of a variety of cyber security stories every organisation should be aware of – such as how ransomware is still the biggest threat to organisations and how social engineering and phishing play a big part in getting ransomware past technical defences to the fix for the Microsoft zero-day vulnerability Follina.
I have an interesting post coming out this Sunday by an executive at Microsoft, who is discussing what has been learnt about cyber-conflict from the early stages of the Ukraine Russia conflict and how the malware deployed could spread beyond the conflict borders. Here is my pinned post with business advice on what to do to secure yourself from the threat if it spreads:
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles