What happens when the relationship between you and a trusted employee breaks down either through ill will or just the fact that they are leaving and taking your client database with them? This is the insider threat. In the case of a “high-profile financial company in Hawaii”, a former employee who …
Omphaloskepsis?
This is what cyber security can become. Not sure what it means? It means navel gazing – thinking about one thing to the exclusion of the wider picture. So what am I talking about? You have been sold anti-virus and a firewall, you’ve set the updates to automatic and have …
Google Chrome clipboard issues – do you know if one of your team is using an unpatched version?
This is an accidental flaw introduced into the latest version of Chrome, which Google is fixing. Google Chrome bug lets sites write to clipboard without asking (bleepingcomputer.com) The issue with websites being able to write to the system clipboard, is that clipboard often holds sensitive information during a website interaction …
Well it was sure to happen… Blake Lemoine the man who claimed Google’s AI is sentient is fired – he was the classic “insider threat”.
Not because he thinks the AI is sentient – although that may have ticked a few people off – but because he published confidential Google information. Blake Lemoine: Google fires engineer who said AI tech has feelings – BBC News Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data …
Here is the reason why patching and updating of any software is essential. Do you want the reassurance that all the updates are being completed across your organisation?
This is a description of how a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Network File System (NFS) could be exploited – which was discovered by Trend Micro Vulnerability Research Service. Zero Day Initiative — CVE-2022-30136: Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This vulnerability was patched in Microsoft’s …