Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
CISA has issued advisories on the following: Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome | CISA Drupal Releases Security Update | CISA Oracle Releases July 2022 Critical Patch Update | CISA Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products | CISA – SANS had a good round-up of these updates here. Cisco …
It does not have the same ring as “Patch Tuesday” but it gets the job done: Apple Patches Everything Day – SANS Internet Storm Centre There are patches and updates available across Apple’s platforms, MacOS versions Catalina, BigSur, and Monterey, tvOS, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. These should all automatically install, …
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The threat actor Roaming Mantis has been detected since February, targeting victims across Europe and the Far East. Their attacks are based around phishing text messages, Android users are directed to download a malicious app, whilst Apple users (as the Apple “walled garden” Apps store does an effective job of …
Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group. GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments …
In the autumn Apple will be adding “Lockdown mode” functionality to the range of it’s operating systems – iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura. For a drastic reduction in functionality, users, who are at risk from sophisticated cyber attacks, such as those posed by Pegasus and Hermit spyware, will …
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