A nice summary of the root cause issued by CrowdStrike following the 19th of July incident. More meat to add to the bones of litigation lining up following the incident. That goes someway to justifying the Crowdstrike, Microsoft legal strategy…
A different approach to a cyber attack response? One wonders how this will move forward with regulators, as they examine the breach. It opens up a debate for customers that may have been, or feel they have been, affected by…
Celebrating international woman’s day, today the 8th March 2023. Celebrating their right to defend their country. View Original Post
Ted Dziekanowski A case of buyer and seller beware. In this case the Municipality Hof van Twente in the Netherland wants to recover damages from IT company Switch IT Solutions from Enschede following a cyber incident in 2020. Hackers were…
If at first you (don’t succeed), sorry do succeed, leave a back door and go back try again. Paying ransomware is a hard decision for companies, it’s also a very expensive process. Those being forced to pay ransomware are least…
Is the threat moving from extortion and fraud to asset destruction. As geopolitics moves cyber up a gear, hackers will change their focus as ransomware payments drop, cyber insurance is less effective and regulations push cyber risk management onto the…
The way to respond to a cyber attack. We have seen a rise in the number of cyber attacks in Australia over the past month. The response from the Australian government has been encouraging, as ministers are front and center,…
How the cyber insurance industry is linked to regulation is demonstrated by the role played by Australian Nation regulators. Requiring critical infrastructure providers to report cyber incident that prevent the delivery of goods or services to the Australian Cyber Security…
The Okta incident and the companies response earlier this year is a lesson in incident response. One that resulted in a fall in stock price, a public relations nightmare, communication errors to the markets and legal action that will be…
Okta has confirmed the attack on its customers late yesterday, including a timeline of the incident from January 2022, when a Sitel employee was compromised, to March 2022. There is no clarity on the exact number of affected customer and…
