Long before network packets and port scans, the global telecommunications infrastructure was explored, mapped, and manipulated using pure audio frequencies, analogue tone generators, and plastic toy whistles. Here is how phone “phreaks” exploited in-band signalling—and laid the architectural groundwork for modern security engineering.
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For years, the standard answer to phishing was an annual slide deck and a poster reminding staff to check for bad grammar and dodgy links. That training still has its place, but it was built for a threat that has largely moved on.
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Security programmes are still largely built to keep external attackers out, but a significant share of incidents now originate inside the organisation. An internal breach can hit a business of any size, and most of the time it isn’t the work of a malicious insider at all.
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ClickFix is a social engineering attack technique that tricks users into manually executing malicious code on their devices by masquerading as routine browser verification checks. Reliance Cyber Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Incident Response team have identified an evolution in tactics being employed, utilising living-off-the-land-binaries and scripts (LOLBAS), command line obfuscation and WebDAV network share mapping for data exfiltration.
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The hours after a breach is detected are the ones that decide how bad it gets. Decisions taken under pressure, with no agreed playbook, tend to be the expensive ones: systems pulled offline that didn’t need to be, notifications sent late, evidence overwritten before anyone could analyse it.
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The battle between cybersecurity attackers and defenders is a constantly evolving arms race. At Reliance Cyber we always try to offer the latest protective technologies to our clients, allowing rapid responses to new attacks, whatever their form.
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Cloud adoption and hybrid work have stretched the network perimeter well past anything a traditional firewall was designed to defend. Users, applications and data now sit largely outside the corporate network, which makes converging networking and security both harder and more important at once.
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Security programmes are still largely built to keep external attackers out, but a significant share of incidents now originate inside the organisation. An internal breach can hit a business of any size, and most of the time it isn’t the work of a malicious insider at all.
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The Exploitation Era: Why EMEA Organisations Cannot Out-Patch Frontier AI Alone
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Discover ten practical measures to harden your environment, along with the pressures driving the change and where specialist expertise fits into modern cloud computing security.
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