Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Microsoft has issued it’s monthly round of patches and updates, SANS Internet Storm Centre has a round-up here: Microsoft August 2022 Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Center This update addresses the DogWalk zero-day vulnerability. Here are the Microsoft release notes: August 2022 Security Updates – Release Notes – Security …
Continue reading “Yesterday was Patch Tuesday – Exchange server gets a special mention”
For when you have time, here are two articles from Microsoft looking at cyberweapons: Continuing the fight against private sector cyberweapons – Microsoft On the Issues Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits – Microsoft Security Blog The view from the US Government Pegasus spyware: Just ‘tip of …
A new strain of malware/ransomware has been discovered by the MalwareHunterTeam – who have Tweeted out details and images. The ransomware is being called RedAlert, or N13V, and target Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers. New RedAlert Ransomware targets Windows, Linux VMware ESXi servers (bleepingcomputer.com) Double extortion Similar to other …
Google Releases Security Update for Chrome | CISA
The US Government, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added several new Microsoft Windows, vulnerabilities to it’s database. These all need patches – so again it is a good time to check that your “auto-updating” is working or time to get an Octagon IT monitoring package and let experts monitor the …
