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. …
When someone writes code for you…
…do you get it checked? It may seem a strange thing to think about, surely the programmers know how to produce secure code? But recent research has shown that even the biggest organisations have coders who continuously leave valuable credentials embedded in their public facing apps. These transgressions often arise …
Because It’s Friday – Cars, Cars, Cars…
Are you old enough to have been told, when you were at school, that everyone would have flying cars in the 21st Century? I am. So, articles on flying cars have been quite popular here on Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology. Swimming Cars When I saw this article about cars …
