Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
With the rapidly changing political situation around the world organisations have a responsibility to make sure their cyber security house is in order. Ukraine-Russia invasion: Russia launches attack on Ukraine from several fronts – BBC News This applies to all the systems and software you use – check now. WordPress …
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There is an academic paper from Tel Aviv University examining Samsung smartphones and how they implement the cryptographic security. They found that some models had a design flaw that allowed for the extraction of the secret keys. Trust Dies in Darkness: Shedding Light on Samsung’s TrustZone Keymaster Design (iacr.org) Here …
You may only get a four day window – it may be less when you read this – to patch Cisco’s Firepower firewall products both physical and virtual. So check it now or get whoever manages your IT or security to check if this impacts you. Field Notice: FN – …
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What is ice phishing? Here is what Microsoft has to say about it: ” ‘ice phishing’… …doesn’t involve stealing one’s private keys. Rather, it entails tricking a user into signing a transaction that delegates approval of the user’s tokens to the attacker. This is a common type of transaction that enables …
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Thomas Claburn at The Register examines the possibility of another leak of personal information from Facebook via Google Chrome extensions. Facebook is one Chrome extension away from a privacy scandal • The Register
