Of course the hackers would jump onboard CrowdStrike’s problems:
The Wednesday Bit on Monday – CrowdStrike Global IT Outage
If you have avoided the papers, online news, social media, mainstream news and TV, and did not have to fly, you may have missed that CrowdStrike, Microsoft and world IT had a bad day last Friday. I did not write about the incident then as I wanted the 24hr news …
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When cyber security patching goes wrong!
Before I start this post let me make this very clear – you have to run the patches and updates for your systems as soon as they become available to keep your organisation secure. But sometime those updates can cause more problems – as in the case of some Windows …
Let’s finish the week with ransomware
Do you have a ransomware plan? If not here is a thought… I am sure the world’s largest commercial bank had/has a ransomware, incident response and business continuity plan – and they need it: World’s largest commercial bank ICBC confirms ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) I am also sure they had plenty …
Denial of Service attacks
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …
Do you have an incident response plan?
Cyber Attack on the British Library. At the moment a spokes person for the British Library is reporting this as a “cyber incident” that took place over the weekend. The authorities, including the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are investigating. There are no details at the moment as to whether …
Apple and Google are plugging the same zero-day flaw
Research has now revealed that the cause of the recent Apple and Google zero-day patches was the same software library used by both software giants. Libwebp, a library found in millions of apps, was the source of the vulnerability. Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day …
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