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Over the past couple of days, Google and Microsoft have issued emergency updates for all Chrome and Edge browser users as they confirm that malicious attackers are already exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability. Google Zero-Day Vulnerability Google’s latest zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1096, was confirmed by the company on March 25th. There is very little information publicly…

Secora Consulting are delighted to be exhibiting at this year’s CUMA Spring Conference and AGM 2022. The event titled “Changing Landscapes”, will run from the 6th to 7th of April in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone. We welcome you to visit our team at Stand 24 to learn more about our services and how we can help you align to the Central Banks IT security expectations. In advance of the conference, we…

On February 24th, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland published its Annual Report under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This marks the third report produced by the DPC since the implementation of GDPR on May 25th, 2018. Some of the key highlights from this report which outlines the work completed by the Data Protection Commission throughout 2021 are: 10,888 queries…

Over the past 18 months, 25% of Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ireland have experienced a cyber attack. Whilst cyber security awareness has increased overall, worryingly 40% of SMEs are still not prepared for a cyber security incident or breach. With cyber criminals becoming increasingly aggressive and innovative in their attack methods, it is now more important than ever for SMEs to become…

The latest ransomware attack on the Coombe Hospital has added to the growing number of cyber attacks hitting organisations around the globe this week. A separate incident involving a serious vulnerability (known as Log4Shell) in the widely used Apache Log4j logging utility has resulted in over 1.8 million attempts to exploit the vulnerability since it hit the public domain last week. If left…

Log4Shell, dubbed as the most critical vulnerability discovered in the last decade, was disclosed on Friday 10th December and has quickly become weaponized by malicious hackers. The Zero-day vulnerability, which was uncovered in an open source logging tool, poses a serious risk to the security and integrity of data and has received a rating of 10 on the CVSS scale.  If exploited, the vulnerability…

Secora Consulting is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Crowley as Director of Advisory Services. Sean joins Secora from BSI where he spent six years in a number of senior roles, most recently as Practice Manager in the Consulting Services division. Prior to this, Sean spent almost a decade in the Financial Services sector in a number of roles including Security, Audit and Electronic…

Cyber-attacks have been significantly increasing in recent years and are predicted to cost $6 trillion by the end of 2021. The stark reality is that start-ups and small businesses are the most susceptible group to these cyber-attacks due to resource and financial constraints. The increasing frequency and severity of cyber-attacks means that it is more important than ever that you do what you can…

Passwords and security foibles are a tale as old as time. One of our first records of this comes from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. In the story, Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, overhears a group of thieves as they approach a cave sealed with a massive stone. He listens closely, and discovers that the thieves utter a password before entering; “open sesame”. Ali Baba proceeds to use…