Are you one of the 15,000 organisations using Okta? UPDATED 22 April 2022

This post was first made on 24 March 2022 I wrote about this yesterday as it got caught up in Lapsus$/Microsoft story – but the network access company, Okta, has been compromised by Lapsus$: Hundreds of companies potentially hit by Okta hack – BBC News First Microsoft, then Okta: New …

Has Apple given us a false sense of security when it comes to their App Tracking Transparency

There was a lot of publicity – including the regular use in iPhone advertising – of Apple’s new stance on privacy. Apple has imposed new rules on vendors of iOS (and iPadOS) through its “walled garden” App Store that enhances our privacy. App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is a cornerstone of …

Global co-operation brings down a giant cyber-criminal website selling stolen login credentials

image from Europol

As you can see from the image above this was a worldwide effort, including the National Crime Agency and Europol, to close the doors on RaidForums, a resource that cyber criminals used to buy and sell stolen information. Unusually this site was on the internet – you and I could …

You really have got to check your WatchGuard devices – care more about them than WatchGuard does!

WatchGuard – a market leader in security devices – appears to have kept a significant vulnerability secret – although it did patch the issue. WatchGuard failed to explicitly disclose critical flaw exploited by Russian hackers | Ars Technica If they patched the issue, then surely everything is fine. Well no. …