Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
End of support for Internet Explorer 11 web browser Today 15 June 2022, Microsoft will retire the Internet Explorer (IE) 11 after 27 years of Internet Explorer being included with Windows. There will no longer be security updates for the application, which means when the threat actors find flaws in …
We will start with the good news – the zero-day threat Follina/msdt.exe has been patched. Let’s hope that it really is the fix we all need! Microsoft June 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 1 zero-day, 55 flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) There are other fixes in the update, for Excel, Edge, Microsoft networking etc …
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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 …
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The ability to sideload apps on an Android device, bypassing any curation in the Google Play Store and the apparent regularity that that app store misses malicious content in Android apps, is an constant cyber security issue for anyone using Android. Here are two recent examples: Android apps with 45 …
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This post was first published on 26 January 2022 There have been further warnings to update QNAP devices that are vulnerable to a Linux bug: QNAP warns severe Linux bug affects most of its NAS devices (bleepingcomputer.com) Today is a day of minority device vulnerabilities – here is another for …
