Regular readers know that I use the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) website as a reliable source of information on software and hardware vulnerabilities. Ones that impact the organisations we support are escalated to our support team, then I write about those and the rest here, for …
Microsoft Teams – a way in for malicious software
Us and about 280 million other people use Microsoft Teams for communications and collaboration, depending on it to be secure. Generally it is – but of course researchers have found that exception – and it is not hard to exploit! Microsoft Teams bug allows malware delivery from external accounts (bleepingcomputer.com) …
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Reduce that Attack Surface
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of our go to location for information about exploited vulnerabilities and patching – the type of resource I discuss in this week’s CyberAwake article: The Zero-day Threat – What can you do about it? Keeping up with these issues …
Cyber Security and Hardware
Both Martin, over on Octagon and I wrote about the importance of hardware in your cyber security plan. Cyber Essentials and hardware | Octagon Technology Buy new hardware! | Smart Thinking Solutions This came about because of some serious flaws in various Barracuda Networks devices. Now Barracuda Networks has issued …
With Patch Tuesday comes…
…other vendor patches and updates. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a reliable source on information on cyber security patches and updates. CISA has issued the following advisories for updates issued on and around Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. Fortinet Releases June 2023 Vulnerability Advisories | CISA Adobe …
