Hello, welcome to the Thursday, October 8, 2020 edition of the Sands and its Storm Center's

Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, and then I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Today's diary, a little bit less technical than what we usually have, and it's really more about,

well, how are we dealing with sort of that constant barrage of

alerts that we are all seeing in our environment, whether they are coming from sensors,

whether they are coming from news streams and the like. Well, the quick summary here is

ignore most of them and most of them you may safely ignore.

Pretty much 99 plus percent of attacks that you are seeing in your logs day-to-day

are probably not going to cause any damage and nothing that you really should waste any time on. So really

dealing with these alerts is a lot about prioritization and really knowing which alerts matter

and, well, to quick summary, sort of in the headline here, that today probably nobody is going

to attack you.

And in that spirit, let's talk about Google Chrome 86, which was released and of course

fixes security vulnerabilities, 35 of them. But don't get too excited by that number. The update will apply itself. Not really

much you have to do in a couple days, maybe double check that Google Chrome has been updated

to 86. And yes, this affects all the different platforms from Windows over MacOS to Linux. And yes, the open source version

Chromium got its update as well. Not quite as straightforward is the Android update

that Google also released. If you have a Google One phone or a pixel phone from Google directly, then yes, just

apply the update and get it over with. For other vendors, you may have to wait for them

to release the particular version for your phone. But then again, nothing really to be

too concerned about because most of the problems,

security problems that I'm seeing with Android are not so much based on flaws in the operating

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