Do you know what a zero-day cyber security threat is? Maybe you do and maybe you don’t, but we are going to take a couple of articles to look at: What is the Zero-day Threat? The competition between the threat actors and the anti-virus and cyber security software vendors should …
ChatGPT and Cyber Security
The sale of credentials is a very active illicit market place. Now the cyber criminals are hoping that employees have shared organisational secrets with ChatGPT as compromised ChatGPT credentials are found for sale on the Dark Web. Trove of ChatGPT creds found on dark web • The Register Do you …
Why modern software does not help with the cyber threat
Modern software often offers extra features through the use of code extensions such as using Python or in the case of Microsoft the macro. We all love the extra functionality – threat actors like the way this functionality allows them to slip malicious code through our defences to us. Microsoft …
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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 …