Weekly Cyber Security News 16/06/2017

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Apart from the huge number of MS fixes this week, little has perked my interest apart from the initial thoughts of the irony of a ransomware attack on UCL:

• U.K. Center of Security Excellence Hit by Ransomware

This article in particular does raise some questions in general about user actions and how it is still the human element that provides the weakest link in any security chain. Whoever finds the golden bullet I’m sure will be a winner.

Other bits:

• Don’t be Overtaken by Account Takeovers

• CD Projekt Red Reveals Cyberpunk 2077 Data Theft Aiden Strawhun reports

• Oklahoma U. shuts down file sharing service after failing to protect thousands of students records Dana Branham reports

• Oops. Tata dev accidentally leaked banks code on public GitHub repo Iain Thomson reports

• Windows XP Receives Patches for More ‘Shadow Brokers’ Exploits

• 1 Million Endpoints Exposed on Public Internet via Microsoft File-Sharing Service

• Adobe Patches 20 Flaws in Flash Player, Other Products

• Microsoft Patches Windows Flaws Exploited in Attacks