Not hacked this time, a researcher have discovered that Halfords is just a little too free when it comes to sharing your data with others! Chris Hatton, a cyber security consultant discovered several exploits in service emails that Halfords had sent him in the course of normal business transactions: Halfords …
If you are still catching up with Follina? Info from the Octagon support team.
The patches and fixes are out but Octagon’s support team is still getting enquiries about the Microsoft Follina flaw. Here is a blog post by Ben, one of the support team at Octagon, outlining what you need to know. And Smart Thinking’s article:
Parcel delivery service Yodel suffers a cyber attack
There is not much information on this issue, as the firm’s communications are jammed with customer complaints: Special delivery: Yodel latest victim of cyber ‘incident’ • The Register Yodel has acknowledged there is a problem on it’s web site, and is posting updates on social media. Any organisation can be …
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Microsoft versioning vulnerability – we have the solution
This is a ransomware encryption attack, that Octagon’s backup solution is designed to mitigate against. The attack exploits the Microsoft 365 versioning feature, when editing a file, saved in SharePoint or OneDrive. Once the threat actors gets into the cloud storage they can execute their attack and start encrypting your …
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Vulnerabilities, come, get fixed, go and come back…
Vendors put a lot of effort into keeping their software secure from hackable vulnerabilities, with patches and updates, but the threat actors never give up looking. Here is an instance of an old vulnerability in Apple’s Safari web browser coming back: Refactoring code in WebKit resurrected ‘zombie’ security bug • …
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