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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency exploited vulnerability advisory. How this type of mistake can impact your cyber security and steps to protect yourself.

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a new vulnerabilities to it’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog | CISA This is an interesting issue, as credentials had been hard coded into the application: “Atlassian Questions For Confluence App has hard-coded credentials, …

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How secure is open source software? Do you use open source software or have software written for you? If so read on… UPDATED

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When we undertake any cyber security survey, and we ask about software, we know the greatest amount of work we will have to do, is when the client says “we had this written for us” or we use this “open source software”. (We will not get into Android apps or …

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Industrial systems as targets for threat actors – this why you need a software policy. Do you have one?

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Industrial systems, large and small run on computers – so why not attack them? So here is the scenario – which Octagon has had to deal with in the past – someone leaves and forgets to leave the password for a system that is accessed only occasionally. You cannot contact …

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