Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT has been in the recently – a lot – for producing essays, academic papers, poetry (I am sure someone used it for Valentine’s Day), homework, hacking etc. But here is a new cyber security risk and data leak, that I am sure no one …
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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 …
Microsoft released it second Patch Tuesday of 2023 yesterday and it fixes a range of security and functionality issues across the range of Microsoft products, including fixing three zero-day flaws that are being actively exploited. Here is the Microsoft release notes page: February 2023 Security Updates – Release Notes – …
Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service has been and is suffering a series of outages that is impacting it’s users. This is not a common service used by business, however we do have some clients, who have a need to use this type of service ( I am not sure if they …
Data stealing malware, pushed through compromised Google search ads, is attempting to evade detection by using virtualisation components: Google ads push ‘virtualized’ malware made for antivirus evasion (bleepingcomputer.com) Researchers think this new type of attack strategy and other emerging attack vectors are being prompted s as reaction to Microsoft tightening …
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Microsoft has stopped directly selling Windows 10 licenses as of yesterday – directing customers to Windows 11. It is time for you to be planning your replacement of your Windows 10 devices – we are. You still have some time as Windows 10 will remain supported with security updates until …
Cyber incidents that impact your organisation are not always malicious. A cleaner could pull the plug on your server or a member of staff may inadvertently switch a vital bit of your network off (I have seen t done, too many times) or a service that you rely on may …
Continue reading “When planning for a cyber incident – remember about outages”
