I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …
Let’s finish the week with another device security article
Device security has definitely been the theme of this week and I thought this article by Dan Goodin on Ars Technica illustrated the problem of insecure devices – especially routers. Hacked and used by both threat actors and national espionage teams. Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office …
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Not the story you want to read…
This is not the headline you want you want to read, when you have written Microsoft into your cyber security plan as an A1 trusted supplier of services! Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it | Ars Technica Mine and your expectations of Microsoft is …
If Microsoft can get it wrong…
It has emerged that senior executives at Microsoft had their emails hacked and monitored by Russian threat actors for nearly 2 months. Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers | Ars Technica The attack was not sophisticated. The threat actors – Midnight Blizzard – using nothing more than a …
Don’t Wait!
I write a lot about patches and updates – that is because they are an important element in any cyber security plan. The quote above from Bruce Schneier sums it up. However not everyone reads my articles or Bruce’s books: Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. …
