The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a £98,000 penalty to Tuckers Solicitors based in London. The solicitors firm suffered a ransomware attack where confidential information including, PII and case material was lost. UK lawyer fined for not patching fast enough before attack • The Register
QNAP device vulnerability – UPDATED
This post was first published on 26 January 2022 There have been further warnings to update QNAP devices that are vulnerable to a Linux bug: QNAP warns severe Linux bug affects most of its NAS devices (bleepingcomputer.com) Today is a day of minority device vulnerabilities – here is another for …
Apple software updates released
Apple has released security and patch updates for their operating systems across most of it’s devices. These updates also include new features across the devices, Macs, iPhones and iPads. The advice, as always, is get the updates ASAP – patched devices are always more secure. iOS 15.4 and macOS 12.3 …
Three Zero Day vulnerabilities in APC UPS units
Check yours now if you have an APC UPS (uninterruptible power supply). TLStorm exploits expose more than 20 million UPS units to takeover. Was yours one of them? | TechRepublic Here is an example of a peripheral part of your computer systems being vulnerable to attack and from there hackers …
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Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday was yesterday – and I am patching away as should you be. Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Centre Microsoft patches 71 security vulnerabilities, 3 critical • The Register Watch out for those patches for Exchange Server if you have one. I thought I had …