Here is an excellent article from The Conversation, by Amro Al-Said Ahmad, looking at the vulnerabilities of cloud computing and infrastructure. How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks (theconversation.com) Your Takeaway Many times, when I am involved with an IT and Cyber Security …
Because It’s Friday – it is all Randall today!
I have a couple of quick things today from the mind of Randall Munroe. An “old” look at the Periodic Table showing how revising was for a chemistry exam was so much easier back in Ancient Greece: xkcd: Classical Periodic Table And one about simple mechanics: xkcd: Ferris Wheels Have …
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Hackers target security software
We all depend on the various technical cyber security solutions we deploy, firewalls, anti-virus, end point detection and response (EDR), there are many names and the threat actors know we depend on them. So it should come as no surprise that there are attacks, that first attempt to disable these …
The state of ransomware
I have written a lot about updates and patches recently – let’s get back to another old favourite – ransomware. No surprise it is still a growth market for threat actors. Read about it in Unit 42’s bi-annual report: Ransomware Review: First Half of 2024 (paloaltonetworks.com) Your takeaway Simple – …
Have you run your Windows updates? Holidays!
Last week was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday so by now you should have done the updates. But if like me you have been away and your computer has not been switched on, then you have not yet patched your machine. Microsoft updates are important – every update by every vendor is …
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