The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of our go to location for information about exploited vulnerabilities and patching – the type of resource I discuss in this week’s CyberAwake article: The Zero-day Threat – What can you do about it? Keeping up with these issues …
The anatomy of a spear phishing attack
A spear phishing attack is a malicious email (usually) with content aimed to exploit the specific recipient. Yee Ching Tok, over on SANS Internet Storm has an excellent article taking apart a spear phishing email targeting YouTube content creators. Analyzing a YouTube Sponsorship Phishing Mail and Malware Targeting Content Creators …
Cyber Security and Hardware
Both Martin, over on Octagon and I wrote about the importance of hardware in your cyber security plan. Cyber Essentials and hardware | Octagon Technology Buy new hardware! | Smart Thinking Solutions This came about because of some serious flaws in various Barracuda Networks devices. Now Barracuda Networks has issued …
With Patch Tuesday comes…
…other vendor patches and updates. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a reliable source on information on cyber security patches and updates. CISA has issued the following advisories for updates issued on and around Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. Fortinet Releases June 2023 Vulnerability Advisories | CISA Adobe …
CISA cyber security advisories
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my go to places for advice on product vulnerabilities and patching. There were two this week for VMware and Mozilla Firefox. VMware Releases Security Update for Aria Operations for Networks | CISA Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Multiple …
