Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Whilst researching for yesterday’s installment of the Insider Threat series, that I am writing over on our online training site CyberAwake, I read an article by Bret Arsenault, from Microsoft that opened with this quote: The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than …
The highly respected security software vendor Malwarebytes, slipped up this time, classifying Google and YouTube as malware for short time: Malwarebytes mistakenly blocks Google, YouTube for malware (bleepingcomputer.com) I recently wrote about false positives and their possible impact on the cyber security stance of an organisation – if you did …
These include products from Google, D-Link, QNAP, Apple, MicroTik, Oracle, Fortinet, Netgear and Android, with D-Link getting the most mentions. CISA Adds Twelve Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA
Yesterday Apple had its September event where all the new toys were revealed, including iOS 16 – which will be on the new devices announced and available as an upgrade for iPhones going back to 2017. The new iOS and MacOS will both support passkey security rather than passwords. Apple …
Most browsers offer the option of adding extensions that will add functionality to the browser, however, of course, the threat actors exploit these to carry out various cyber attacks: Chrome extensions with 1.4 million installs steal browsing data (bleepingcomputer.com) Here are the extensions that the McAfee researchers discovered: Netflix Party (mmnbenehknklpbendgmgngeaignppnbe) …
