Weekly Cyber Security News 21/12/2023

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news.

It could be said raising awareness is good as it motives complacent teams. That said, revelations that it was exaggerated might make teams more complacent in the future to react…

• Impact of Log4Shell Bug Was Overblown, Say Researchers

The good old CC mistake. Like they say, email has been around for decades but people are still making this error. I’ve seen it plenty of times myself over the years and it surprises me every time:

• To BCC or not to BCC – that is the question data watchdog wants answered

Talking of which, here is a really awful example:

• UK’s Ministry of Defence fined after Bcc email blinder that put the lives of Afghan citizens at risk