Security

Top Cyber Stories for April 2022 – Cyber Stories Funky Pigeon Cyber Attack Funky Pigeon, a UK online gifts and greetings cards store was the target of a cyber attack that saw the company suspend taking new orders and move its systems offline. The website had not resumed full operations as at May 3, about […]

Top Cyber Stories for March 2022 Russia-Ukraine War Continues in Cyberspace As the armed conflict following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified through March, multiple cyberattacks purportedly linked to the war were reported. It was not just attacks on Ukrainian and Russian websites. Cyber incidents spilled over onto allies of either side. See examples here and […]

Top Cyber Stories for February 2022 Another month. Another slew of cyberattacks. If anyone was under any illusion that 2022 would perhaps see a slowdown of cyberattacks unlike 2021, February decisively put that idea to rest. Attacks targeting a wide range of prominent organizations hit the news. Ukraine government and bank websites crash The tensions […]

Top Cyber Stories for January 2022 Morgan Stanley’s $60 Million Settlement for Data Breach Financial services giant Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay $60 million to settle a data security class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit brought by about a dozen customers claimed the company had exposed their personal information when on two occasions, it failed to […]

The Apache Log4j Vulnerability Also known as Log4Shell, the Apache Log4j vulnerability was THE cybersecurity news story of December and one of the most significant of 2021 and likely 2022. A flaw in the widely used Java logging library, it was first disclosed on December 9. The vulnerability was first discovered in Minecraft and allows […]

Microsoft rolled out a not overly heavy 55 fixes in November’s Patch Tuesday, but it includes several critical issues and six zero-days.

October was a scary month, not just because of Halloween, but because of the number of patches from software vendors to avoid nasty tricks.

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday offers fixes for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including four zero-days and updates for Windows 11.

September patches from software vendors other than Microsoft were numerous, reflecting a new reality where remote workers are targets of hackers.

Summer is ending, but the vulnerabilities continue hot and heavy. The Microsoft September patch update has fixes for scores of flaws, several critical.