Very. Regular vendor updates to patch software flaws that could be or are being exploited by threat actors – such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – are essential to everyone’s cyber security. Google is going to issue updates for its Chrome browser weekly. Google to fight hackers with weekly Chrome security …
UK Electoral Commission drag their feet…
A vast amount of data about UK citizens has been stolen from the UK Electoral Commission in a data breach, but it has taken them some time to let the public know they lost control of it: Public notification of cyber-attack on Electoral Commission systems What data has been compromised? …
It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN!
The first thing to say is that a VPN is for life – not just for the holidays. What’s a VPN? I could tell you about internet tunnels and cryptography here – I passed the secure networking test at Uni, but let’s keep it simple. It is a private, secure …
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday
This morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues or absconders! Here is Microsoft’s detailed page on …
The National Cyber Security Centre releases the “most exploited” of 2022
The NCSC in collaboration with allies from around the world have released a list of those cyber vulnerabilities that were the most exploited by threat actors last year. NCSC and allies reveal most common cyber vulnerabilities exploited in 2022 – NCSC There are two main trends in the report: Defend …
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