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With 63 updates affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and the Visual Studio and .NET platforms — and reports of three publicly exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-37969, CVE-2022-34713, CVE-2021-40444) — this month’s Patch Tuesday release gets a “Patch Now” priority. Key testing areas include printing, Microsoft Word, and in general application un-installations. (The Microsoft Office, .NET and browser updates can be added to your standard release schedules.)

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September 16, 2022 admin

Behind my title of Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer- and what it means to be an impact company

Credit to Author: Gwenaelle Avice-Huet| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:00:26 +0000

When I introduce myself to others, I often wish my job title were simpler. After all, “Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer” (CSSO) is a bit of a mouthful. Still, it’s… Read more »

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Security Wired

September 16, 2022 admin

Inside the Shadow Evacuation of Kabul

Credit to Author: Michael Venutolo-Mantovani| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In the last two weeks of the war, an ad hoc team armed with group chats, QR codes, and satellite maps launched a mad dash to save imperiled Afghan allies.

Kaspersky Security

September 16, 2022 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 267 | Kaspersky official blog

Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:09:09 +0000

Episode 267 of the Transatlantic Cable includes Meta engineers unsure where data goes, Lazarus, bank thieves in gyms and more!

Independent Krebs

September 16, 2022 admin

Botched Crypto Mugging Lands Three U.K. Men in Jail

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:55:25 +0000

Three men in the United Kingdom were arrested this month after police responding to an attempted break-in at a residence stopped their car as they fled the scene. The authorities found weapons and a police uniform in the trunk, and say the trio intended to assault a local man and force him to hand over virtual currencies.

ComputerWorld Independent

September 16, 2022 admin

Sadly, IT can no longer trust geolocation for much of anything

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Geolocation was once a glorious way to know who your company is dealing with (and sometimes what they are doing). Then VPNs started to undermine that. And now, things have gotten so bad that the Apple App Store and Google Play both offer apps that unashamedly declare they can spoof locations — and neither mobile OS vendor does anything to stop it.

Why? It seems both Apple and Google created the holes these developers are using.

In a nutshell, Apple and Google — to test their apps across various geographies — needed to be able to trick the system into thinking that their developers are wherever they wanted to say that they are. What’s good for the mobile goose, as they say.

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MalwareBytes Security

September 15, 2022 admin