White Hat Hackers

Here is some cyber security good news. Bugs in software found by the researchers before threat actors could exploit them:

Google paid $10 million in bug bounty rewards last year (bleepingcomputer.com)

Software is complicated and bug bounties paid by vendors is a good incentive for people to help them spot and fix their software in a timely manor.

Your Takeaway

Of course these security flaws can only be fixed for you, if you and your team apply the cyber security patches as soon as they become available. Do you have a system in place to check that these are being applied?

One more thing…

Remember today is Microsoft Patch Tuesday and those patches will need checking as well.

Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles