Sophisticated, state-based actors?
Sophisticated, state-based cyber actors? Archive – June 2020 As you will be aware of by now, the Prime Minister warned Australians of “sophisticated, state-based cyber actors” targeting Australian organisations and all tiers of government. But is the sky really falling and if it is, will we all be equally devastated when it crashes down? And […]
Scareware v1 – Just silly… probably
Scareware v1 – Just silly Probably Along with lots of other people on the Internet, you’ve probably received an unsolicited email, not only threatening you but claiming to have stolen your password and hacked your web cam. The emails generally go along the following lines: While poorly worded, the email can certainly appear alarming and […]
It’s not what you know…
SOC and SIEM. It’s not what you know. (Actually, that’s exactly what it is!) Monitoring eCommerce sites for compromise DotSec knows that securing eCommerce sites properly can be tricky. Various best-practice guides to securing eCommerce software such as Magento do exist (see [1], [2] below) but despite the efforts of all concerned (including system owners, […]
Security for Australian law firms
2023 State of Cyber Maturity for Australian Law Firms The 2023 State of Cyber Maturity for Australian Law Firms survey invited legal professionals to share their approaches, motivations, decision making, and management towards cyber security. DotSec commissioned independent market research firm Momentum Intelligence to conduct the survey in collaboration with Lawyers Weekly. The survey was conducted on behalf […]
Not the patches you’re looking for
If a vulnerability scan identifies that a system is missing medium-risk vendor-supplied security patches, these patches must still be applied in order to be compliant with PCI DSS requirement 6.2, as described above. The fact that a vulnerability scan identified the issue and reported it as only a medium risk has no bearing as to […]
It’s still borked?
Neiman Marcus breach. Again. A long time ago*…… Waaay back, in 2013, high-end retailer Neiman Marcus was breached, resulting in a loss of data related to about 370,000 customers. Well needless to say, those 370,000-ish customers weren’t happy and they launched a class action claiming that Neiman Marcus was accountable for the breach which resulted […]
What? It’s borked?
When on earth did that happen? Can you imagine that a reputable organisation would deploy a business-critical security service without first designing and testing it, and then reviewing it to ensure that it operated as expected? Or, would you expect an organisation to allow a security service that was not well-designed, tested and regularly reviewed […]