Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I have previously written about bug bounty programmes – where software vendors will pay white-hat hackers for information about flaws in their software – so security steps, updates and patches can be released before the black-hat hackers can exploit them in the wild. A little light holiday reading! – Smart …
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So yesterday was Patch Tuesday – and we all know what that means. Get the updates and patching done now! Here here are my favourite round-up articles: Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2022 – SANS Internet Storm Centre Microsoft starts 2022 with 96 CVEs for Patch Tuesday • The Register …
The future of cyber crime is smart contracts on a blockchain with software bugs! Dan Goodin has an article explaining how a bug (flaw) in the code for drafting a blockchain smart contract, by MonoX Finance, allowed a hacker to steal $31million from them. Really stupid “smart contract” bug let …
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He is a round-up of the Microsoft updates from SANS Internet Strom. As always get these done! Microsoft November 2021 Patch Tuesday (sans.edu)
I had to write about patches today – yesterday was Microsoft Patch Tuesday and we got a range patches for their software. Some of these were for critical vulnerabilities with one of them actually being exploited in the wild. Microsoft October 2021 Patch Tuesday (sans.edu) Other software vendors also seem …
