Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
…let the UK Government scrutinise your security patches before you are allowed to publish them to your vulnerable customers! Sounds like a bad dream. Read on. Security Patches are Important Alarm surrounds a clause in the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act. According to the proposed legislation, tech firms will be mandated …
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