After all the “excitement” of CrowdStrike last week, let’s start this week with some good old fashioned bad news cyber security research. Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers | Ars Technica Let’s get a definition of Secure Boot from Copilot AI: “Secure Boot …
CISA cyber security advisories
With Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday other vendors also release patches and updates around the same time. Here are the notifications from the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – a good resource for keeping up with the major vendor patches: First of course their notification for Microsoft’s releases: Microsoft …
Data Sovereignty. You should get involved…
So I have just finished reading this piece, on The Register: Just how critical is data sovereignty? • The Register It is sponsored by Intel and is collecting research information on how organisations think about their data sovereignty. Not sure what data sovereignty is? Here is an example, you collect …
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Intel BIOS source code has been stolen
Intel has confirmed that the leaked BIOS code on GitHub is the code for the UEFI BIOS of Alder Lake CPUs. Intel confirms leaked Alder Lake BIOS Source Code is authentic (bleepingcomputer.com) Intel has been talking down the security implications of the leak, however the release of the code will …
It’s that Conti gang again
The prolific cyber criminal gang is back in the news – if it was ever out. Conti spotted working on exploits for Intel ME flaws • The Register The data extortion gang Karakurt is believed to be associated with the Conti gang. Not ransomware this time that encrypts your data …