Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is a nice little piece of “off the wall” cyber security. How many of us plug our phones and devices into public USB charging ports, in trains, hotels etc.? Have you ever thought that the port may be connected to a computer which could steal your data? Alright it …
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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Why is Patch Tuesday important? For that answer why Patch Tuesday is important, have a look here: How Microsoft Patch Tuesday can help your cyber security planning Patch Tuesday for April 2023 One of the patches in this release is for the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-28252, which is a privilege elevation …
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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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