I am going to promise you a good news story for the “Wednesday Bit” tomorrow as we start the week off with another vulnerability with WordPress that is probably impacting many organisations without their knowlege. Why? Because they just let their web designers get on with the website without any …
There is no choice but to run cyber security updates…
…but sometimes they go wrong. Microsoft has had to fix a number of problems following the April Patch Tuesday. Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections (bleepingcomputer.com) Microsoft: April Windows Server updates cause NTLM auth failures (bleepingcomputer.com) I included these stories in this week of device security as a …
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Let’s finish the week with another device security article
Device security has definitely been the theme of this week and I thought this article by Dan Goodin on Ars Technica illustrated the problem of insecure devices – especially routers. Hacked and used by both threat actors and national espionage teams. Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office …
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Because It’s Friday – Honest I did not make this up…
I must start with the headline today: The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code | The War Zone (twz.com) The first thing I did was verify the publication date – 3 July 2022, not 1 April. Then I realised that this story was “on message” for …
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The nasty side of hacking
Julius Kivimäki has been jailed, in Finland for more than six years, for stealing the confidential files of about 33,000 therapy patients and then trying to blackmail victims with that information. Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail – BBC News He tried extorting the company, Vastaamo, first. When …
Not a cyber security issue but it still needs patching…
Continuing the device theme this week – what happens when those devices we rely fail to work properly because they are missing a patch? If it is your firewall then you have a cyber security issue and you need to contact us for some help. If it is your alarm …
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Back to Basics – The Collection II
This week the Wednesday Bit is for reminding you about my collection of mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers. There have been a number of additions, updates and changes since I first ran a “Collection” article. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some …