Articles and Comments By Hugo Van den Toorn
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Expert Commentary: Millions Of Windows 10 PCs Exposed By Nasty Security Vulnerability
September 28 , 2021 by Hugo Van den Toorn
This vulnerability highlights the importance of a layered security approach. In both the physical su...
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Emotet Takedown - What's Next
January 28 , 2021 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Unfortunately, many people wrongfully think law enforcement does very little against hacking. It is...
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Intel Latest Hack - Industry Comment
January 26 , 2021 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Financial information, especially sensitive information that may directly be linked to share prices,...
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Cyber Criminals Publish More Than 4,000 Stolen Sepa Files
January 25 , 2021 by Hugo Van den Toorn
As you are dealing with individuals, or collectives of people, with very little ethics you cannot tr...
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Expert Reaction On Severe Risk As Amnesty Calls Out Countries With 'Most Dangerous' Contact Tracing Apps
June 16 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Although the benefits of such apps are evident, the process of gathering the contact information is...
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Future MOT Tests May Include Cars To Be Tested For Cyber Security To Prevent Hacks
June 02 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
This is a great development for the automotive industry, an industry known for its ever-growing arra...
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Hacked Law Firm Informs Celeb Clients Including Lady Gaga And Madonna Of Data Breach - Experts Insight
May 13 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Paying ransom does not guarantee that the attackers will not do anything with the data. As a matter...
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Experts Insight On Decathlon Suffers Major Breach Impacting Over 120 Million Customers
February 26 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Unfortunately yet another Elastic Database that is open to the public, which has nothing to do with...
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Experts On Data Breach At Indian Airline SpiceJet Affects 1.2 Million Passengers
January 31 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Ignoring the separate discussion of the legality of this ‘ethical’ hack and it’s disclosure po...
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Security Expert On P&N Bank Breach
January 16 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
This again emphasises the importance of ensuring that our third-party vendors live up to our own org...
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Comment: Peekaboo Moments Suffers Breach Leaving Thousands Of Baby Images And Videos Exposed
January 15 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
Unfortunately, this is yet another Elastic Database that is open to the public, which has nothing to...
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Security Awareness Advocate On Austria's Foreign Ministry Targeted By 'Serious' Cyber Attack
January 06 , 2020 by Hugo Van den Toorn
It is true that despite the precautions taken and all the controls in place, a motivated attacker ca...
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