CISA Security Advisories – and why checking this post and software patching is important

software patches are essential cybersecurity

CISA is the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a very good source cyber security and software patching information. Last week they posted several software patching updates and known vulnerabilities that are being exploited and mitigations for them. Samba Releases Security Updates for Multiple Versions of Samba | …

Available for sale – a toolkit to steal credentials

AlienFox is a malicious modular toolkit that threat actors can buy via a private Telegram channel. New AlienFox toolkit steals credentials for 18 cloud services (bleepingcomputer.com) The malware can be configured to scan for misconfigured servers and steal authentication details and credentials for a range of popular cloud-based services such …

Cisco security patches released

The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my go to resources for cyber security information – particularly when it comes to patching vulnerable products. Cisco Releases Security Advisories for Multiple Products – CISA