May 14, 2024

Good morning, everyone!

This week’s critical vulnerabilities: Microsoft & Adobe fixed lots of stuff in the last Patch Tuesday releases Rust has released a critical fix Certain end-of-life D-Link NAS devices have critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation -- need replacement Palo Alto has released critical fixes for PAN-OS Delinea has released critical fixes for Secret Server Telegram has released an important update to the Windows desktop app Juniper has released fixes for multiple products Patch All the Things!

I read this horrifying tale last week:

More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.

It reminded me of a recent newsletter I wrote on lessons from the recent AT&T outage but taking things a bit further:

• Do you have a good idea of your current bank account balances?
• Do you maintain any local records of how much money you have in which account?
• Do you have funds in local banks where you can physically access them, when/if your online-only bank accounts are locked?
• Do you have a bit of cash stored somewhere for emergencies?

Food for thought this week!

Glenda R. Snodgrass
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