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 …
How important are patches and updates?
Very. Regular vendor updates to patch software flaws that could be or are being exploited by threat actors – such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – are essential to everyone’s cyber security. Google is going to issue updates for its Chrome browser weekly. Google to fight hackers with weekly Chrome security …
Good news for Android malware
Let’s end this week on a good news Android story. There is no doubt that malware infected and malicious Android apps do get distributed through the Google Play store – see last Friday’s final post among the many on this site. Google has taken various steps to try and deal …
