Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Just a reminder that Internet Explorer is no more (almost) and you need to be using a more secure browser. Take your pick, I use Edge and Chrome, many of my support team use Firefox, but whatever you choose it needs to be able to resist the latest exploits and …
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SANS Internet Storm Diary has a comprehensive report on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday: Microsoft December 2022 Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Center Here is the Microsoft release page: December 2022 Security Updates – Release Notes – Security Update Guide – Microsoft The Microsoft report gives much more information on the …
It comes round every month – make sure your team has updated. Here is a link to Lawrence Abrams’ excellent roundup of the updates and patches from Microsoft at Bleeping Computer. It includes details of the zero-day vulnerabilities patched: Microsoft November 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 6 exploited zero-days, 68 flaws …
So, everyone knows what that means, for the users, slow internet connections as we all gather in those vital updates, for the administrators, checking what needs to be done and checking that it has happened – including checking that the users have not skipped the updates because they are too …
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Here is a security concern that you may not have thought of. The enhanced (not the basic one the products ship with) spell check functionality in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome sends information back and forth between your machine and their servers but it appears this information can include personally …
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