President Biden’s government has set up The Joint Ransomware Task Force, to co-ordinate State and Federal responses to ransomware: US finds its ‘center of gravity’ in the fight against ransomware – The Record by Recorded Future
Other patches and updates in the news
Other companies gather around Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and issue their updates round and about the same time and there are also the critical patches that are issued when needed. Here are some that are in the news but you should be checking your systems for updates: AWS fixes vulnerability affecting …
Russia Ukraine cyber actions this winter
I updated the pinned post at the top of the blog yesterday with warnings from Microsoft and Google about the potential for the Russia Ukraine cyber conflict to escalate over this winter. Here is an article by Alexander Martin from The Record looking at the risks and threats in more …
Car security again
This is proving to be a fertile ground for cyber security researchers. I wonder, how many dissertations this continual issue is going to generate? One of the under lying issue here is technology being pushed beyond what it was originally designed for and lacking the underlying high security the applications …
USB data storage devices – useful but risky
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an article looking at the ups and downs of using USB data storage devices in businesses: If you must use portable USB drives, then you must read this… – CyberAwake One of the down sides was the Japanese man who loss …
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