This is a follow-on article to last week’s article Let’s Talk About Your VPN. You should read that article first, to save me having to explain what a VPN is and why I am talking about them now. VPN Issues I spent last week talking up the cyber security advantages …
Chrome gets updates
Google is always on the lookout for security issues Google Chrome and Chromium – many other browsers are based on this technology including Microsoft Edge so it is a rich target for threat actors if they can find a flaw to exploit. When those patches are issued you or your …
Google Play Protect gets an on device boost
Google is rolling out on-device protection for Android devices to combat the ever present threat of malicious Android apps. Play Protect has been part of the Play store for a while but that did not protect against apps installed outside of the Store. This extension to Google Play Protect does. …
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Because It’s Friday – Cars, Cars, Cars…
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 …