The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my trusted sources for cyber security information. They have recently added a number of known vulnerabilities to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog – including, Veritas Backup Exec, Windows and the recently patched Apple vulnerabilities. CISA Adds Five Known …
Apple updates fix Zero-day flaws
Apple updates have been issued across it’s range of devices to address to address two zero-day flaws discovered in their operating systems. The affected range of devices is extensive but as of writing there have been no reports of active exploitation of the flaws. The best thing to do is …
I just love this cyber security story…
This is all just academic research (at the moment) but here is a story about exploiting the range of voice assistants, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa and Cortana, using voice commands, issued from one device, that are inaudible to the human owners, but can activate another device. To do what? Here …
CISA Security Advisories – and why checking this post and software patching is important
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 | …
Watch where you download your Tor browser from…
…or any other software. Governments around the world, including for instance Russia, ban Tor web sites from the internet in their countries as it is a very effective way for users to conceal their IP address from authorities. However this had led to a rise in other sites offering Tor …
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