I have gathered here just a selection of the ransomware stories that have made the headlines – for these there are many more that go unreported in the media or even outside the organisation. ‘Lives are at stake’: hacking of US hospitals highlights deadly risk of ransomware | Hacking | …
Spectre-based attack on older AMD chips
A hardware flaw like Spectre and Meltdown are always going to be a big issue for users and vendors alike. Patches and fixes are probably going to impact the performance of the CPUs and hardware. They are also going to an attack vector threat actors will constantly return as it …
Yesterday was Microsoft Patch Tuesday – get it done and check everyone else is getting it done as well…
It is that time again – among the fixes and patches from Microsoft, for July 2022 is one addressing CVE-2022-22047, Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability – according to Microsoft a zero-day flaw that is being exploited by threat actors. For more details see Bleeping Computer’s excellent round-up of Patch Tuesday: …
Ransomware passing its self off as Google patches
A new strain of ransomware, HavanaCrypt, is being distributed by threat actors as Google software updates, exploiting Microsoft functionality: HavanaCrypt ransomware sails in as a fake Google update • The Register
You really should not be using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 but if you are…
Microsoft has announced that Microsoft 365 patches and support will no longer be supplied to either Windows 7 or 8.1 even if you were an enterprise paying for extended support: No more Microsoft 365 patches for Windows 7 from 2023 • The Register Crunch date January 10 2023.