The week of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is a always a busy time for security advisories on the the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) website. Here are the current notifications, including Microsoft (of course), Apple, Mozilla and Adobe: Microsoft Releases April 2023 Security Updates | CISA (Patch Tuesday …
Patch Tuesday – It comes around so quickly!
Why is Patch Tuesday important? For that answer why Patch Tuesday is important, have a look here: How Microsoft Patch Tuesday can help your cyber security planning Patch Tuesday for April 2023 One of the patches in this release is for the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-28252, which is a privilege elevation …
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You must have an Android cyber security policy
People complain about the way Apple controls its App store, “Android and Google Apps are far less restrictive”, but whatever the arguments it does mean their level of app curation improves the cyber security of Apple devices. The fact that Apple controls both the hardware and operating systems of their …
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CISA Security Advisories
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my trusted sources for cyber security information. They have recently added a number of known vulnerabilities to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog – including, Veritas Backup Exec, Windows and the recently patched Apple vulnerabilities. CISA Adds Five Known …
Apple updates fix Zero-day flaws
Apple updates have been issued across it’s range of devices to address to address two zero-day flaws discovered in their operating systems. The affected range of devices is extensive but as of writing there have been no reports of active exploitation of the flaws. The best thing to do is …