Apple and FIDO

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Apple will be releasing iOS 16 to the public this autumn, however the developer release was made at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference 2022. Also announced were an array of forthcoming Apple hardware and software about to be released – what interests me here is that Apple, true to it’s …

Microsoft guidance for Office zero-day vulnerability – Follina

I have written about this Microsoft Word vulnerability earlier this week: New attack using Microsoft Office documents – could you or your team recognise it? – Smart Thinking Solutions There is still not patch – but Microsoft has issued some mitigation guidance: Guidance for CVE-2022-30190 Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability …

Zero-day threat using Microsoft Office documents – even if macros are disabled – it’s called Follina

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I have written about the usefulness and the threat that Microsoft Office document macros can pose to your cyber security. This flaw, called Follina, exploits Office functionality to retrieve an HTML file, and Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) to run some malicious code, which can lead to privilege escalation attacks. …

More vulnerabilities to be aware of… Including Microsoft, Adobe, Linux and Google Chrome

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is having a busy week of updating it’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog: CISA Adds 34 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA Microsoft and Adobe figure strongly on the list today but there are other products there – go and check. There is …