There is a particularly nasty exploit going around the will according to an article on Ars Technica, install a “witch’s brew of malware” on vulnerable systems: VMware bug with 9.8 severity rating exploited to install witch’s brew of malware | Ars Technica The patch for CVE-2022-22954 is out, just get it …
Were you a lab rat?
Here is an interesting article about privacy, looking at how LinkedIn (Microsoft) loosely interpreted its privacy policies so it could experiment on twenty million users: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users | Ars Technica
Chaos
Black Lotus Labs has discovered a new strain a malware, they are calling it Chaos. The new is very telling – the malware is infecting a wide range of devices and servers, Linux, Windows, small office routers etc. One of the servers infected was hosting an instance of GitHub, bringing …
Because It’s Friday – Queen Elizabeth II and Technology
Because it does not always need to be serious cyber security articles. Get your coffee and doughnuts out. Here are a couple of articles about Queen Elizabeth II and her relationship with technology. How the Queen embraced technology during her reign | Queen Elizabeth II | The Guardian Queen Elizabeth …
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Do you have a policy to securely dispose of your redundant equipment?
Or do you let your staff or IT Support sell it on eBay? $35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned | Ars Technica We do not resell equipment we are charged with disposing of securely.
