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Password Security: Avoid these 5 common mistakes

Password security is something that no one should underestimate in the face of today's threats. One sensible option for secure password management is to use software designed for this purpose.

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16.1.2025

Framework recap, role of the CISO & and vendor assessments: Cyberday product and news round-up 12/2024 🛡️

December's product and news round-up will showcase the vendor security assessments and new enterprise-level features, an overview of the key frameworks for 2025 and the roles of the CISO and personnel in an organisation's security.

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19.12.2024

Europe's Compliance Revolution: Evolving Cyber Sec Consulting

The evolving cyber sec landscape and growing demand for compliance in combination with a shortage of professionals calls for new ways of working. With the help of partnerships and agile tools, consultants can benefit from the current situation.

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18.12.2024

TISAX: Understanding the Automotive framework

By embracing TISAX, automotive industry operators can improve information security, enhance compliance and strengthen their market position. Read more about TISAX, its scope, requirements and how ISO 27001 fits in.

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3.12.2024

Recognising growth: move to new offices with Cyberday!

Join the Cyberday team when it's time to upgrade to a bigger office space. Read about the highlights of the autumn, and let's reflect together on how growth and physical security can shape the workspace.

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28.11.2024

Understanding Physical Security in Cybersecurity: Insights from ISO 27001 and Best Practices

Physical security controls are essential, but often undervalued, in safeguarding information systems from unauthorized access, which might otherwise lead to data breaches or business disruptions.

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22.11.2024

DORA essentials: Introduction, Scope and key requirements

In this blog, we’ll get an comprehensive introduction what DORA is, what it entails, who the requirements framework applies to, and how DORA is implemented within Cyberday. DORA framework is available in Cyberday!

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14.11.2024

Cyberday goes Cyber Security Nordic 2024!

Our Cyberday team attended the Cyber Security Nordic 2024 event 29th-30th October. Read about the event, keynote and our insights. This post offers insight into topical themes, also for those who were unable to attend.

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31.10.2024

Is remote work the new normal?

As COVID-19 continues to spread, remote work is no longer an experiment, but a requirement in many nations. While it represents a huge change, the results of a research conducted by OnePoll and Citrix, reveal that a majority of employees around the world are adapting to working from home and believe it will become the new normal for the way work gets done. “Remote work is not business as usual. It represents a totally new … More → The post Is remote work the new normal? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors, a new report by VMware Carbon Black released at RSA Conference 2020 has revealed. The report uncovers the top attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) seen over the last year and provides specific guidance on ransomware, commodity malware, wipers, access mining and destructive attacks. Among some of the key findings from the report: Defense evasion behavior was seen in more than 90 percent of the 2,000 samples they … More → The post Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Hackers are actively exploiting zero-days in several WordPress plugins

There's quite the WordPress p0wnage going on right now.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

The “Great Cannon” has been deployed again

SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users’ connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site.

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks

What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative impact right away. This is, for example, what prevents many from making dental hygiene a priority: we all know dental hygiene is critical to our health and a relatively easy “investment”, but … More → The post What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence

Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims

It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Last week we reported on the Ako Ransomware and how it was targeting companies with the intent to encrypt their entire network. ID Ransomware Submissions David Pickett, a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AppRiver, reached out to BleepingComputer yesterday to tell us that his company saw the Ako ransomware being distributed through spam email. Spam email distributing the Ako Ransomware Attached to these emails is a password-protected zip file named agreement.zip with the password '2020' being given in the email. Agreement.zip Archive As shown by this report from JoeSandbox, when Ako is executed it will encrypt the victim's files and leave them with a ransom note named ako-readme.txt. Ako Ransom Note As spam is being used to spread the Ako Ransomware, everyone must be is trained on how to properly identify malicious email and not open any attachments without first confirming who and why they were sent.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year's Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info such as credit card details and personal information. [...]

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15.5.2020
Phishing

Why You Should Be Prepared to Fight Against Advanced Persistent Threats

APTs may already be targeting your organization. You need to formulate comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, implement robust and stringent security measures, and test your defenses to ensure that you’re protected.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

By Waqas Why a Web application firewall is a vital tool to keep websites safe from cyber attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities