Readily available commercial drones have been adapted to be spy-drones: Wi-Fi spy drones used to snoop on financial firm • The Register This type of attack had been a popular discussion and maker session at various hacking events over the past few years, but now it is happening in the …
The traditional hack – a smash and grab raid on the confidential data of a computer game company
WE speak a lot about ransomware, malware and phishing attacks – but sometimes a cyber attack is just, defeat the security and grab the data. This is what has happened to the computer game developer Rockstar. Grand Theft Auto VI footage leaked after hack, developer Rockstar confirms – BBC News …
Connected technology reaches everywhere – it is the internet of things. But some of those things surely need special attention to their security?
Like medical devices: Four vulnerabilities discovered in popular infusion pumps, WiFi batteries – The Record by Recorded Future Your takeaway from this is to look at your IoT and connected devices (such as CCTV) and check they meet your cybersecurity standard, are patched and secured and if administered by a …
CCTV cameras being exploited
For a small business or home office, it seems very easy today to set up your own “view from anywhere” CCTV system, but we often find the security is not correctly configured. Add to that that the manufacturer’s security can be faulty… Over 80,000 exploitable Hikvision cameras exposed online – …
Cisco network breached
Cisco have published details of a network compromise of their systems: Cisco’s own network compromised by gang with Lapsus$ links • The Register
Yesterday was Microsoft Patch Tuesday – get it done and check everyone else is getting it done as well…
It is that time again – among the fixes and patches from Microsoft, for July 2022 is one addressing CVE-2022-22047, Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability – according to Microsoft a zero-day flaw that is being exploited by threat actors. For more details see Bleeping Computer’s excellent round-up of Patch Tuesday: …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – Follina zero-day fixed
We will start with the good news – the zero-day threat Follina/msdt.exe has been patched. Let’s hope that it really is the fix we all need! Microsoft June 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 1 zero-day, 55 flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) There are other fixes in the update, for Excel, Edge, Microsoft networking etc …
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