This is an excellent article by Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management at Microsoft looking at five simple steps any organisation should consider making to improve their cyber security: 5 ways Microsoft helps block threats – Microsoft Security Blog It looks at patches, credentials, monitoring, passwords …
More security advisories
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is an excellent resource for keeping up with security advisories. Adobe and Microsoft Patch Tuesday are the latest advisories as well as additions to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Both of these Microsoft exploits are addressed in the Microsoft Patch Tuesday …
Patch Tuesday
It is that time of the month when the Microsoft updates and security patches are released – so restart your computer when you are asked to – it is important. There are nearly 100 security and a zero-day vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s release across the whole Microsoft portfolio. Here …
Patches and Updates for everything…
I say this a lot but “keep up with the updates”. Here Apple has fixed a zero-day flaw that was spotted by Microsoft – that was helpful of them! Microsoft finds macOS bug that lets malware bypass security checks (bleepingcomputer.com)
Big Tech and Child Abuse
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has released a report examining how the world’s biggest tech companies address child abuse – not what they say they do, but what actually happens. It does not make good reading. World-first report shows leading tech companies are not doing enough to tackle online child abuse | …
Cyber Security Report from Microsoft
This report makes interesting reading – it gives an insight of the big picture of cyber threats and risks. As businesses we have to find our risks in all of this: New Cyber Signals report from Microsoft – Microsoft Security Blog
Ransomware is never far from the news
Threat actors have been taking advantage of an exploited set of Microsoft credentials to embed ransomware attacks into signed drivers: Microsoft-signed malicious Windows drivers used in ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) And LockBit got through the cyber security defences of California’s Department of Finance: LockBit claims attack on California’s Department of Finance …
