Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is not a repeat of the previous post – now the Microsoft Snipping Tool has been shown to have similar issues to Google Pixel’s image cropping tool – what you cut away is not lost and so secret, it can be recovered later. Windows 11 Snipping Tool privacy bug …
The gap between the vendor discovering a vulnerability and the patch getting to you will always be an issue – this is the zero-day threat. It escalates if the threat actors became aware of the vulnerability and exploits it before the vendor becomes aware. Now research by Mandiant shows that, …
We all see redacting n the TV shows and movies we watch – documents with big black lines through the secret information that must not be revealed – and I use similar techniques for screenshots I use here to conceal secret information. I am sure you do the same. I …
Shane Huntley, Senior Director Threat Analysis Group, has written an article about the Ukraine Russia conflict and how the increased cyber activity has spilled out and impacted the cyber security landscape. Fog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape (blog.google) Not so light reading for the …
Data stealing malware, pushed through compromised Google search ads, is attempting to evade detection by using virtualisation components: Google ads push ‘virtualized’ malware made for antivirus evasion (bleepingcomputer.com) Researchers think this new type of attack strategy and other emerging attack vectors are being prompted s as reaction to Microsoft tightening …
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