Weekly Cyber Security News 19/03/2021

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Who knew this would happen right?

• Exchange flaws could be much worse than thought: Six hacking groups suspected of using the zero days pre-patch

A really nasty deep fake persistent attack. With such technology easily accessible, we have gone well past the times of a badly ‘Photoshopped’ image:

• High-schooler and her mother hacked school records to steal homecoming queen election, police say

Come on folks. I do empathize when after much pressure it is much easier to just grant higher rights… But at what future cost?

• PSA: If you”re still giving users admin rights, maybe try not doing that. Would’ve helped dampen 100+ Microsoft vulns last year