This is all just academic research (at the moment) but here is a story about exploiting the range of voice assistants, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa and Cortana, using voice commands, issued from one device, that are inaudible to the human owners, but can activate another device. To do what? Here …
When redacting does not work
We all see redacting n the TV shows and movies we watch – documents with big black lines through the secret information that must not be revealed – and I use similar techniques for screenshots I use here to conceal secret information. I am sure you do the same. I …
US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Advisories
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) site in one of my “go to” places for information on vulnerabilities, exploitations and patches. Built for the US Government, and American centric, it is still a great resource. This week it has run an excellent article for security professionals on …
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Patching Matters…
…for governments and for you. Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – an important day of the month for patches and updates from many vendors – is appears that various threat actors gained access to an unpatched US Government Agency server, exploiting a three year old vulnerability that …
Patch Tuesday
Yesterday was Patch Tuesday – so get ready for your Windows PC to ask you to rebbot your machine – even though you are in the middle of a job – read about that here. What is fixed this month? The headlines are- as it is every month – this …
