Updates and patches are an essential part of any comprehensive business cyber security plan. This report from Google’s Project Zero shows that vendors are patching software vulnerabilities faster – which means we get the patches faster. Project Zero: A walk through Project Zero metrics (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
Small Enterprises to be the focus of cyber-attacks in the coming months
“…small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) face an average of 11 cyberthreats per day…”(BlackBerry, 2022) Following the NCSC’s warning to UK organisations to review their cybersecurity, here is an article by Brian Stone at TechRepublic discussing the threats to small businesses outlined in a report by BlackBerry. BlackBerry report reveals …
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This is not comforting news – Ukrainian websites hit by denial of service attacks
With global politicians trying to cool the situation between Russia and Ukraine a huge denial of service attack across multiple website is not good news. Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable | Ars Technica DDoS attacks hit Ukrainian government websites – The Record by Recorded Future However …
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Here’s an amusing story about the Missouri State Governor
Before we start keep your finger away from that F12 key. In Missouri the Governor believes that a journalist using F12, on a badly coded website run by his state government, would cost the taxpayers of that state $50m! Missouri ends effort to prosecute ‘view source’ journalist • The Register …
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Cyber-security stories are like buses!
I have just written about one organisation that needs to update legacy systems for it’s users security and here is another story about an industry where legacy systems are to widely used. Get Ready for Cyber-Attacks on Global Food Supplies | WIRED UK
