Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A UK Government’s report looking at cybersecurity breaches across the country, (UK Government. 2022), prepared by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (and sport!) showed clearly email phishing is a real threat: “Of the 39% of UK businesses who identified an attack, the most common threat vector was phishing …
This post was originally published on 8 July 2022 Update 12 July 2022 Microsoft says that this rollback of “stopping macros from the web being blocked, out of the box” is only temporary and it points out that admins can still implement this restriction through Group policies: Macros from the …
Bug bounties are a useful way for vendors – and now government departments – to engage with honest, white hat, cyber security experts, to test systems for flaws. DoD issues call for hackers to dig into networks – The Record by Recorded Future
Here is some excellent advice, from Matt Burgess, over on Wired UK, about Instagram scams: How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams | WIRED UK One of the best bits of advice to remember is that threat actors and scammers quickly congregate to any big story or human tragedy, such …
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Microsoft vulnerability to it’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog | CISA This vulnerability was addressed in June’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Guidance on Applying June Microsoft Patch | CISA
