Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The week of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is a always a busy time for security advisories on the the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) website. Here are the current notifications, including Microsoft (of course), Apple, Mozilla and Adobe: Microsoft Releases April 2023 Security Updates | CISA (Patch Tuesday …
Phishing emails with a carefully scripted social engineering message, a malicious .pdf file with links to malware stored in Firebase Storage on Google. Brad Duncan on SANS InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog has the full story including screenshots of the phishing email and the steps to infection: Recent IcedID (Bokbot) activity …
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ChatGPT has been used for homework, writing radio programmes, academic papers, articles, coding, hacking etc. etc. etc.. Here are some of the most recent articles examining privacy and cyber crime using artificial intelligence, of which the adapting, convincing email scams is probably the issue that organisations need to think about …
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The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my trusted sources for cyber security information. They have recently added a number of known vulnerabilities to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog – including, Veritas Backup Exec, Windows and the recently patched Apple vulnerabilities. CISA Adds Five Known …
CISA is the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a very good source cyber security and software patching information. Last week they posted several software patching updates and known vulnerabilities that are being exploited and mitigations for them. Samba Releases Security Updates for Multiple Versions of Samba | …
