The holiday season is drawing to a close, but this scam that Bruce Schneier writes about will work at any time of the year. Baggage Tag Scam – Schneier on Security Your Takeaway This type of cyber-attack involving something that you should keep private, but you let get into the …
Sextortion
To get back in the swing of things after the summer break, let’s look at a particularly nasty cyber-attack – sextortion. To do this I am going to direct you to a series of articles on SANS Internet Storm by Jan Kopriva, looking at the attacks and how the money …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2025
Yesterday was the 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 has …
Cyber Security Patching is Essential
This is far too many unpatched and vulnerable servers. Over 29,000 Exchange servers unpatched against high-severity flaw – BleepingComputer Computer Your Takeaway You might not have an Exchange server but managing and ensure all the cyber security patches needed to keep your organisation protected is a task that should not …
Do you have a Dell computer?
I do – but it is not impacted by this vulnerability: ReVault flaws let hackers bypass Windows login on Dell laptops – BleepingComputer The hack allows threat actors to bypass the regular Windows login and security – but they do need to physically located with the victim’s machine and have …
