CISA is the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a very good source cyber security and software patching information. Last week they posted several software patching updates and known vulnerabilities that are being exploited and mitigations for them. Samba Releases Security Updates for Multiple Versions of Samba | …
ChatGPT and Privacy
I have been asked about ChatGPT in the last couple of talks I have given, with people asking about the cyber security implications and how they can make money out of it! Here are a couple of ChatGPT articles from the weekend – the first I thought was an April’s …
It is World Back-up Day
Happy World Back-up Day. Reminding people and organisations annually about backing-up is a good thing but you or someone should be thinking about your back-ups every day! Here is what I consider to be the minimum for a ransomware resilient back-up has to be: Following these guidelines for all your …
Because It’s Friday – Volcanoes or a Dyson Sphere?
I spotted this article in The Conversation – volcanoes in space – just the type of story I like for Because It’s Friday, to ease us all into the weekend. Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System (theconversation.com) The image above is of a volcano on Io, the most volcanically …
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Available for sale – a toolkit to steal credentials
AlienFox is a malicious modular toolkit that threat actors can buy via a private Telegram channel. New AlienFox toolkit steals credentials for 18 cloud services (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware can be configured to scan for misconfigured servers and steal authentication details and credentials for a range of popular cloud-based services such …
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