Yesterday was Patch Tuesday – so get ready for your Windows PC to ask you to rebbot your machine – even though you are in the middle of a job – read about that here. What is fixed this month? The headlines are- as it is every month – this …
More protection for Microsoft Excel
Following the blocking of VBA macros by default in Microsoft Office apps – read about the ups and downs of that story here – Microsoft has announced that all untrusted XLL add-ins will be blocked by default. Microsoft Excel now blocking untrusted XLL add-ins by default (bleepingcomputer.com) Blocking any avenue …
Poisoning AI output
We all know (unless you have had your head under a pillow) that ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that among its capabilities it can write a love poem, and academic paper, computer code or even your homework. It can also answer your questions – just ask Bing! ChatGPT AI …
Be careful what you give to ChatGPT – a new type of intellectual property leak.
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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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 …