The first article is about a Russian threat group – NoName057(16) – which has claimed it launched a number of DDoS attacks again UK local government websites: Pro-Russia hackers claim Greater Manchester council cyber attacks – BBC News The affected councils have reported that the functionality of their websites suffered …
Fake Authenticator
Multi-factor Authentication – MFA – if you are unsure how this cyber security tool contributes to your security, then have a read of this: If you do know how important MFA is, then you will realise that a fake MFA app would cyber security chaos. Of course, the threat actors …
Google Pixel Updates
Google has released fifty patches for its Pixel range of Android based phones – some of which fix vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited. Google warns of actively exploited Pixel firmware zero-day (bleepingcomputer.com) As with any cyber security patch, if you have Google Pixel phones handling your organisation’s information, either …
13 Billion downloads
I am going to quote the BleepingComputer article by Sergiu Gatlan to illustrate the reach of the vulnerability in Fluent Bit. “Fluent Bit is an extremely popular logging and metrics solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS embedded in major Kubernetes distributions, including those from Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft …
More patching – this time Google
Zero-day software vulnerabilities are an issue for every vendor – how quick they react to them when they eventually find out they have a problem will be a key part of the risk in your cyber security planning. Google seems to get on this issue really quickly – as far …
