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

software patches are essential cybersecurity

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 …

Twenty more known vulnerabilities added to the CISA database

software patches are essential cybersecurity

Following yesterday’s post, more vulnerabilities have been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Yesterday: Twenty-one additions to the known exploited database! – Smart Thinking Solutions Today: CISA Adds 20 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA Microsoft, Apple and Cisco figure highly among …

I love patches as part of a cyber security plan – but there is a problem!

Patches and Updates

If the patch is not effective or worse it breaks something else whilst fixing the vulnerability. This happened to Microsoft: Microsoft fixes Windows authentication woes • The Register But you still have to run those patches and updates as an unpatched system is a target for threat actors. Better to …

Google – “cybersecurity is one of the top issues facing the world today”

The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …