If you use or responsible for a School Management system – check this does not impact you. The ICO takes a dim view of child privacy violations. Researchers find backdoor lurking in WordPress plugin used by schools | Ars Technica
Time to patch everything Apple – UPDATED 18 May 2022
The list of patches is at SANS, check your cyber security organisation information to see how this impacts you and fix it. The iPod Touch is still being supported in updates – but you would expect that from Apple. Apple Patches Everything – SANS Internet Storm Centre iOS 15.5 and …
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Satellite cyber-attacks, WhisperGate, AcidRain and the spread of the Russia Ukraine cyber conflict
Statements have been made this week by the European Union, the United States and other allies relating the WhisperGate cyber attacks that were directed at Ukraine but spilled over into the greater Europe damaging thousands of modems. This damage had the knock on effect of crippling wind turbines and subsequent …
Flaw discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors
Among the vendors using uClibc and the uClibc variant uClibc-ng are Linksys, Netgear, Axis and Gentoo an embedded Linux distribution. This page from Ars Technica has links to the impacted devices: Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw | Ars Technica Vendors were informed of …
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Cloudflare has big boots!
Cloudflare is a service that offers a range of services – one of which is to protect client websites and servers from denial of service attacks. We are using it for one of our high profile clients. Cloudflare does this job very well and can deal with the biggest DDoS …
