Are you old enough to have been told, when you were at school, that everyone would have flying cars in the 21st Century? I am. So, articles on flying cars have been quite popular here on Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology. Swimming Cars When I saw this article about cars …
Exploited Vulnerabilities
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a number of products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including products from Microsoft, Red Hat, Arm and Google. Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA Our penetration testing suite and this database is probably one of my most visited …
Good news for Chromebooks
I am always writing and talking about how important patches and updates are to your cyber security, so this is good news for users of Chromebooks, extended update support: Google extends security update support for Chromebooks to 10 years (bleepingcomputer.com) We have some clients who use Chromebooks as they represent …
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency security advisories
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a trusted source of information on security updates and exploited vulnerabilities. My team use it as one of their go to resources. The latest updates include the other vendors that release updates around the same time as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. …
Zero-day Google Chrome vulnerability
Emergency patches have been issued for Google Chrome to address a vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. Google fixes another Chrome zero-day bug exploited in attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) If your team uses Chrome then check these patches have been done. We use Google Chrome and we know our patching …