Risks Evolve over time Vulnerabilities evolve over time as threat growsExample: Wannacry ransomware campaign Short answer is NO! Since risks evolve -risks and vulnerabilities are always changing! Even if one could solve all the current vulnerabilities and install the updates everywhere to all of your software and hardware, there would still be new vulnerabilities … Read more
Which ones? How about curl or wget? When i saw another ISC (Internet Storm Center) post that is what I was thinking about. What is a command-line browser? And why is it so important to watch out for it? Every computer has a command line – it is built-in to the Operating system. and … Read more
Yes it is patch Tuesday this week – this means that Microsoft has released a number of patches and thus others do as well. So that the administrators can schedule their downtime once instead of more times than that. Let’s check Internet Storm Center today: So it means we have 99 vulnerabilities, of which one … Read more
If you upgrade then we also benefit – since now your machine cannot be used by criminals to attack other machines. How can we help you understand to upgrade your system( i.e. Patch – install vulnerability fixes)? This has been attempted before on this site – in the following post: https://oversitesentry.com/small-businesses-do-not-get-hacked/ of course businesses can … Read more
What is Cybersecurity? (updated image with yellow text for better contrast – 2/25/20) Cybersecurity is the security of computers, phones, any devices with computer pieces in them (IoT – Internet of Things). Cybersecurity definition as stated by Merriam-Webster : measures taken to protect a computer or computer system (as on the Internet) against unauthorized access … Read more