WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 242

#WeeklyCybersecurityTip: Remove the software you do not use!

Nov 21, 2022 12:00 PM

1- GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance. As such, you should l…

2- Log4Shell-like code execution hole in popular Backstage dev tool

Researchers at cloud coding security company Oxeye have written up a critical bug that they recently discovered in the popular cloud development toolkit Backstage. Their report includes an explanation of how the bug works, plus proof-of-concept (PoC) code showing how to exploit it. Backstage is what…

3- Google to Pay $391 Million Fine For Silently Tracking User’s Location

Google is agreed to pay a $391.5 fine with 40 state attorneys general for secretly tracking users’ locations is the largest fine ever imposed as a privacy settlement led by Oregon AG Rosenblum and Nebraska AG Doug Peterson, an Attorney General, US. An allegation against Google was that it misled use…

4- GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance. As such, you should l…