Happy New Year. I am going to start the cyber news for 2024 with a story that broke between Christmas and the New Year – Apple iPhone hardware vulnerabilities. I am a great supporter of the Apple iPhone and the associated “walled garden” App store as a good cyber security …
Does the Apple Private Wi-Fi work at last?
One of the fixes supplied in last week’s Apple iOS update was to finally fix the Private Wi-Fi Address function. This option spoofs the devices MAC on each Wi-Fi network it joins and obscures the user’s identity. The MAC is usually the same on every network any device joins and …
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Connections
Here is something to read on Saturday morning over coffee – Apple’s move to USB C. Renaud Foucart, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University has written about several aspects of the change including “green washing” and “follow the money”. Apple has switched from its …
Top Ten Misconfigurations
In several of my most recent IT and Cyber Security Audits I have encountered problems similar to those in this report from the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – misconfigurations. NSA and CISA Release Advisory on Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations | CISA …
CISA posts advisories on a range of security patches
Other vendors issue their monthly security and feature patches on or around Microsoft Patch Tuesday – it makes sense to get the updates all done together. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – one of my go to cyber security sites – issues regular round-ups of the …
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