The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my go to places for advice on product vulnerabilities and patching. There were two this week for VMware and Mozilla Firefox. VMware Releases Security Update for Aria Operations for Networks | CISA Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Multiple …
Passwordless is coming – Google says so
Here is a keynote article from Google looking at the steps it is taking to make the online experience safer. Google I/O 2023: New features to improve online safety (blog.google) It is worth the read as it does illustrate what the threats and risks are when operating online – both …
Passwordless Google Accounts
I’m in. I have written about passwordlessness (I probably made that word up!) before. Eliminating the password makes it much harder for threat actors to compromise your security, exploit stolen credentials and gain unauthorised access to systems such as Microsoft and now Google: Google adds passkeys support for passwordless sign-in …
When is secure not secure
A while back Diana wrote a piece about the padlock in the URL bar of your browser and what it says about that sites security and means for your cyber security: Is that website secure? However what that symbol means in effect is that the communications between your device and …
What to do if you think you have malware on you PC…
…and a good news story about Facebook. The information stealing malware, NodeStealer spotted by the Facebook security team stealing Facebook user information and hijacking accounts – so they stepped in and blocked it. Facebook disrupts new NodeStealer information-stealing malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware exfiltrated session cookies from a range of the …
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