Here is a an interesting article from The Record by Andrea Peterson looking at the impact of “Off-the-shelf spyware” such as Pegasus from the Israeli NSO Group in democratic countries – particularly focusing on its use in Mexico and a recent Citizen Lab report. Democracies are having a reckoning with …
Malicious Android apps get an update to avoid detection
Legitimate software vendors update and patch their products to combat threat actors, so it is no surprise to see that threat actors update and patch their malicious products to evade updated defences: Hacking group updates Furball Android spyware to evade detection (bleepingcomputer.com) Just make sure you manage those Android devices …
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CISA security advisories
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is a good source of cyber security information – which is why I try and pass on those that are relevant to my readers. Here are two of the latest: Their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog is a resource for tracking flaws and issues …
User’s not understanding what secure configurations are, is the first step towards a cyber security incident. UPDATED
This original post was made on 23 August 2022 Update 21 October 2022 There has been another “mis-configuration story this week – Microsoft exposed thousands of client records when they mis-configured a server. Following a report in the summer of patient information leaking from a health care company because of …
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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