Speaking last week at GCHQ in Cheltenham, the Chancellor announced the creation of a new 'National Cyber Centre' (NCC). You can read the full text of his speech here, and some highlight factoids here. I recommend at least reading the highlights, though there is a...
Last summer JP Morgan Chase 'fessed up to an enormous breach that impacted some 80 million customers. Headlines at the time were alarming, with speculation even amongst security professionals and seniors in government that this must be the work of a state sponsored group. Who else...
If you follow cyber security news even vaguely, you'll be aware of the recent news stories about hacking a Chrysler Jeep. This is good, solid security research, conducted over a number of years which on the face of it seems entirely valid. In other words,...
Recently we had a call from a client who had received an extremely targeted malicious email, aimed at convincing the financial director to transfer a large amount of money to a designated bank account at the apparent request of someone else senior in the same...
We’ve written a few articles recently on the topic of incident response, without ever stopping to explain what we actually mean when we talk about ‘incident response’ in a cyber security context. So today we’re going to rectify that, and give you some pointers for...
At The Cyber Security Expert we're often asked about incident response - what to do when things go wrong, and how to work out if a particular computer is compromised. Obviously we are here to help you if needed, but there is quite a lot...
I'm going to deviate from the usual 'ask the expert' today and talk instead about something I very much enjoy, which is digging around in data, and at the same time highlight the threat from what are apparently Russian state backed hackers. Sounds very Cold...
A few weeks ago The Cyber Security Expert explained how you can spot suspicious email. Dealing with suspicious emails, which may have attachments or embedded links is something anyone working in security does everyday. We dragged The Cyber Security Expert from his Buffy Fan Fiction writing group,...