This is a really interesting blog from Microsoft examining cyber crime from the prospective of a law abiding real world economic model: Ransomware-as-a-service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy and how to protect yourself – Microsoft Security Blog Cyber-gangs have been shaping themselves as real businesses for a while, with business …
CISA – Google Chrome updates for all platforms and Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Yesterday the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued and advisory for Google Chrome patches: Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome | CISA They also posted their Microsoft Patch Tuesday advisory: Microsoft Releases May 2022 Security Updates | CISA
FIDO – the new word in identity authentication UPDATED 11 May 2022
This post was originally published on 9 May 2022 Original post Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, passwords and usernames seemed like a good idea for security… However in today’s connected and hacked world, where people still think it is OK to use “liverpool” or a …
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Patch Tuesday – May 2022
Here is SANS’ excellent round-up of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday: Microsoft May 2022 Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Centre There are the usual array of issues that Microsoft is fixing be they become an issue – one of the Windows patches fixes Windows LSA, this impacts the authentication of accounts …
Life imitates art! “crypto muggings” and proportionality
I just realised I am waiting for “crypto doughnuts”! We recently sat in on a meeting where a security expert suggested to our client, that they move from Microsoft 365 for Business to E5, as they would benefit from the added cyber security features of the enterprise grade Microsoft 365. …
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