More Schools are Considering Zero Trust. Here’s Why.

October 26, 2022

K–12 environments are prime targets for hackers due to the sensitive information they hold and historically underdeveloped security measures. As a former K–12 CTO in Indiana and Georgia for more than 25 years, I saw many school districts dealt a devastating blow by cybersecurity breaches and attacks, many of which happened as the result of an overall lack of funding, awareness, support and staff expertise.
The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the situation, as many schools leapt quickly into virtual learning environments, exposing more staff and students to vulnerabilities. Educators and IT…

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Microsoft confirms two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited; one researcher suspects a Chinese threat actor (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft confirms two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited; one researcher suspects a Chinese threat actor — Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.

September 30, 2022

Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo, its sixth patch for zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo, its sixth patch for zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw …

September 6, 2022

Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is under active exploit, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is under active exploit, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft’s September 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability and a total of 63 flaws.

September 14, 2022

Lookout: almost 50% of Android phones used by US state and local government staff run outdated versions of the OS, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Lookout: almost 50% of Android phones used by US state and local government staff run outdated versions of the OS, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities — According to a new report, almost half of Android-based mobile phones used by U.S. state and local government employees …

November 4, 2022

Microsoft releases 68 security fixes, including patches for six actively exploited Windows zero-day flaws and 11 vulnerabilities classified as Critical (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases 68 security fixes, including patches for six actively exploited Windows zero-day flaws and 11 vulnerabilities classified as Critical — Today is Microsoft’s November 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for six actively exploited Windows vulnerabilities and a total of 68 flaws.

November 9, 2022

Cloudflare announces Zero Trust SIM, a US-only, device-specific eSIM for iOS and Android that uses VPNs and DNS filtering, and Zero Trust for Mobile Operators (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare announces Zero Trust SIM, a US-only, device-specific eSIM for iOS and Android that uses VPNs and DNS filtering, and Zero Trust for Mobile Operators — Are smartphones ever entirely secure? It depends on one’s definition of “secure,” particularly when dealing with corporate environments.

September 26, 2022

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