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Articles and Comments By Peter Draper

Expert Commentary
Belarusian Intelligence Behind Ukrainian Government Website Cyber Attacks
January 17 , 2022 by Peter Draper
In terms of attribution, the current and historic tensions between Ukraine and Russia suggest that t...
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Comment: Cyber Attacks On Corporations Hit Record Breaking Highs
January 12 , 2022 by Peter Draper
This information will not be a surprise to anyone in the cyber security world as this has been a con...
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Experts Insight On News: Virgin Media Data Breach Affects 900,000 People
March 06 , 2020 by Peter Draper
This data breach is wholly down to human error which is one of the biggest threats facing organisati...
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Personal Details Of 10.6M MGM Hotel Guests Posted On A Hacking Forum - Cybersecurity Experts React
February 21 , 2020 by Peter Draper
Unfortunately, users’ data being exposed and made available to a wide range of bad actors is so co...
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Philips Smart Lights Vulnerability Allows Hopping To Devices On The Network - Experts Advise
February 07 , 2020 by Peter Draper
This is one of the major issues with so called “smart devices”. The controls in place on the qu...
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What Expert Says On 500,000+ Bitbucket Hosts Have Been Infected With Malware
February 06 , 2020 by Peter Draper
This breach is another example of how in today’s digital world an increasing volume of personally...
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Experts On Data Breach At Indian Airline SpiceJet Affects 1.2 Million Passengers
January 31 , 2020 by Peter Draper
This is another example of lack of basic security controls. Anything that contains customer data sh...
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Comment: Wordpress Plugin Bug Exposes 200K+ Sites
January 31 , 2020 by Peter Draper
A high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug allows attackers to take over WordPress sites...
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Experts On Gedia Automotive Group Hit By Massive Cyber Attack That Shuts Down IT Operations
January 28 , 2020 by Peter Draper
Companies can protect themselves better following some basic, standard tactics 1) Ensure good and r...
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Experts On UPS Reveals Phishing Attack Might Have Exposed Customer Information
January 23 , 2020 by Peter Draper
Here we have another example of the most common issue facing companies today - phishing attacks that...
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Experts Comments On Macy's Customer Payment Info Stolen In Magecart Breach
November 19 , 2019 by Peter Draper
Mergecart attacks in action again. A number of organisations have been compromised in this way, incl...
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Expert On Trend Micro Insider Threat
November 07 , 2019 by Peter Draper
Graham Cluley is right when he says this is every security firms nightmare. Security firms are reli...
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Over Two Thirds Of Organisations Breached Due To Insider Threat
October 08 , 2019 by Peter Draper
This research confirms what many already know. Point solutions are not cutting it anymore, especiall...
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Dubai Company Loses $53,000 In Targeted Cyber Attack
September 25 , 2019 by Peter Draper
In this attack the bad actor had the time to trawl through previous company emails to gain an unders...
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Garmin SA Shopping Portal Breach Leads To Payment Data Theft
September 16 , 2019 by Peter Draper
A number of companies have been caught by Magecart recently, British Airways and Ticketmaster to nam...
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National Australia Bank Suffers Data Breach Caused By Human Error
July 29 , 2019 by Peter Draper
Although NAB stated this was not a cyber security event but human error it still impacts the privacy...