Other companies gather around Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and issue their updates round and about the same time and there are also the critical patches that are issued when needed. Here are some that are in the news but you should be checking your systems for updates: AWS fixes vulnerability affecting …
Uber suffers a substantial cyber security breach – actions you should take – UPDATED
This post was first published on 16 September 2022 Details and facts are not confirmed yet but Uber has been the victim of a cyber attack: Uber cloud systems seemingly hijacked in ‘security incident’ • The Register Leaked images seem to show the hackers have gained administrator access to Uber’s …
This time there is more of a security issue with iOS rather than Android
Usually when I am discussing smartphone app security, Apple iOS has an advantage over Android apps, because of it’s curated App store that stops (most) of the security issues from getting through to the end user’s devices. Now researchers have discovered Amazon Web Service credentials hard coded, by careless developers …
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AWS and Log4j – patches break security
Other cyber security stories have really overtaken the log4j/log4shell issue, but it is still out there and sometimes, because developers are so dependent on the framework, patches lead to more issues. Here is an example where even the biggest organisations have problems: Amazon Web Services Log4j patches blew holes in …