On his own confession – Nick clicked on a link in what looked like a genuine email from X and then lost control of his account. The email had explained that he had made a post that had violated X’s rules and his account was going to be closed – …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2025
Today is second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The day the cyber security world thinks about Microsoft patches and vulnerabilities. But remember other vendors also release cyber security and functionality updates and patches on or around the same time – check those as well. Our support team have …
The day before Patch Tuesday…
Apple has released an emergency security patch for iPads and iPhones: Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks The types of attack described would probably not impact the ordinary user – but a cyber security patch is a cyber security patch, who knows who else may come along the …
Because It’s Friday – A stick and Valentine’s Day!
Following on from the “Because It’s Friday” where Professor Hannah Fry explained how much paper you need to wrap the planet Earth, today, I thought you would like to hear her explain a stick… …and explaining that an electron has weight. How many zeros? Something Extra – Valentine’s Day Diana …
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Google issues Android updates to fix zero-day exploits
Every vendor must do it – issue cyber security patches. For app vendors, if you use the app, you get the updates. For operating systems like Windows and the various flavours of Apple OS it is straight forward as the vendors have direct control of the OS and push regular …
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