I am involved in an IT/Cyber Security Audit this week – so I am pushed for time to produce articles a Wednesday article for Smart Thinking. Zero-day What I can give you is all three parts of my Zero-day mini-series that I completed last week: The Zero-day Threat – What …
Get that patching done
CISA – The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – is one of my trusted sources of information when it comes to software and firmware vulnerabilities and patching. Patching It is the week of Microsoft Patch Tuesday – here is the CISA advisory for Microsoft products: Microsoft Releases July …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday
This morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues or absconders! Here is Microsoft’s detailed page on Patch Tuesday: July …
Now Microsoft Teams is a target for threat actors
Once Microsoft finally closed the door on the Office macro the threat actors had to move on: Microsoft Office Macros – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – CyberAwake OneNote was their first target: Now OneNote is an attack vector | Smart Thinking Solutions QakNote – OneNote malware now …
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Microsoft Teams – a way in for malicious software
Us and about 280 million other people use Microsoft Teams for communications and collaboration, depending on it to be secure. Generally it is – but of course researchers have found that exception – and it is not hard to exploit! Microsoft Teams bug allows malware delivery from external accounts (bleepingcomputer.com) …
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The Zero-day Threat – What is it?
Do you know what a zero-day cyber security threat is? Maybe you do and maybe you don’t, but we are going to take a couple of articles to look at: What is the Zero-day Threat? The competition between the threat actors and the anti-virus and cyber security software vendors should …