There are reports of the commercial spyware, Pegasus, being targeted at European Commission officials last year, by as yet unidentified hackers. European officials reportedly targeted by NSO spyware • The Register Pegasus is commercially available from the Israeli company NSO Group, to “approved” organisations.
Spring4Shell in the wild executing the Mirai botnet
Hackers have been actively working to exploit the Spring4Shell vulnerability – now it has been detected in the wild deploying the Mirai botnet. Spring4Shell under active exploit by Mirai botnet herders • The Register CVE-2022-22965 Analyzing the Exploitation of Spring4Shell Vulnerability in Weaponizing and Executing the Mirai Botnet Malware (trendmicro.com) …
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Will this be a more strict Google Play store?
Apple has always promoted it’s App Store as a safe a secure place to download apps to your iOS device because of the level of curation (and fees) they apply to any app available there. Google on the other hand, still charges the fees to developers, but there was always …
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National Cyber Security Centre Threat Report 8 April 2022
Weekly Threat Report 8th April 2022 – NCSC.GOV.UK
I switched to Windows 11 – have you? Here is the security and privacy case for switching.
Time to make a coffee and have a look at Windows 11 and what Microsoft is doing to protect your work and organisations. The first article is by Microsoft – so treat it as such – but it does lay out clearly the aims and objectives of the operating system …
