Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Modern software often offers extra features through the use of code extensions such as using Python or in the case of Microsoft the macro. We all love the extra functionality – threat actors like the way this functionality allows them to slip malicious code through our defences to us. Microsoft …
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Today is Patch Tuesday. Here is why it is important: How Microsoft Patch Tuesday can help your cyber security planning – CyberAwake Johannes Ullrich has written a summary of Microsoft’s June 2023 cyber security patches and updates: June 2023 Microsoft Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Centre Microsoft always has …
We all have the best technical cyber security defences in place we can afford (or we should have). The threat actors know this so they are always on the hunt for those techniques that our anti-virus and filtering systems cannot detect. PowerShell is a powerful Windows command line and automation …
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This is something I try and explain at every cyber security awareness session I run – what is a phishing email? The answer is constantly changing as the threat actors never stand still in their attempts to get us to infect our own computers. I used to point to bad …
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Hot on the heels of last week’s Patch Tuesday – the Apple updates have come out. This article from SANS Internet Storm gives a comprehensive review of the updates across Apple’s range of products: Apple Updates Everything – SANS Internet Storm Center These updates include patches for at least three …
