Emergency patches have been issued for Google Chrome to address a vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. Google fixes another Chrome zero-day bug exploited in attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) If your team uses Chrome then check these patches have been done. We use Google Chrome and we know our patching …
Critical Apple Patches available
Apple has issued Out-of-Band patches for a number of its products to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited. About the security content of iOS 16.6.1 and iPadOS 16.6.1 – Apple Patches are available for, iPhone 8 and later, iPads and iPad Pros, Macs running Ventura and Apple …
Android Updates
Many organisations use Android devices and many of those are owned by their staff and are being used as “BYOD” devices. You need to have a policy about the ones that hold your company’s information. Android is probably the most attacked OS after Microsoft (see article here) so you need …
Are You patched yet?
Following on from yesterdays article about using obsolete kit – almost as bad is using kit that has not been patched. There is a good reason that many of my articles here on Smart Thinking are about patches and updates, it is the most powerful cyber security step you can …
Security Updates
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – an excellent source for keeping up with cyber security vulnerabilities and updates – has issued advisories for a number of products: VMware Releases Security Updates for Aria Operations for Networks | CISA Juniper Networks Releases Security Advisory for Junos OS …