The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued several advisories about security patches available from a range of vendors, including Adobe and Citrix: Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products | CISA SAP Releases July 2022 Security Updates | CISA Citrix Releases Security Updates for Hypervisor | CISA
Spectre-based attack on older AMD chips
A hardware flaw like Spectre and Meltdown are always going to be a big issue for users and vendors alike. Patches and fixes are probably going to impact the performance of the CPUs and hardware. They are also going to an attack vector threat actors will constantly return as it …
More and more phishing attacks – each with their own special touch to exploit the trust of your people!
A UK Government’s report looking at cybersecurity breaches across the country, (UK Government. 2022), prepared by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (and sport!) showed clearly email phishing is a real threat: “Of the 39% of UK businesses who identified an attack, the most common threat vector was phishing …
Yesterday was Microsoft Patch Tuesday – get it done and check everyone else is getting it done as well…
It is that time again – among the fixes and patches from Microsoft, for July 2022 is one addressing CVE-2022-22047, Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability – according to Microsoft a zero-day flaw that is being exploited by threat actors. For more details see Bleeping Computer’s excellent round-up of Patch Tuesday: …
Very, very occasionally a ransomware attack has a happy ending! However do you need training in cyber security planning?
In December 2019, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, decided to pay the ransom, of €200,000 at the time, to release the data of over 22,00 students, the academics and the university administration. Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment (bleepingcomputer.com) Since then the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service …
