Cybercriminals can break almost any corporate infrastructure 93% of the time and trigger 71% of dangerous outcomes deemed ‘unacceptable’ for businesses, according to a report by Positive Technologies. Based on data obtained during information security assessments for clients between the second half of 2020 through the first half of 2021, the report reveals an external […]
Wedemark, Germany-based audio giant Sennheiser is working “intensively” to investigate how some customer data was exposed on the internet two months ago, the company says in a newly updated statement. In a notice on its website, Sennheiser acknowledges being notified in October that some company data was displayed on the web. The company says it […]
Microsoft is urging Active Directory administrators to apply November patches for a pair of tricky domain service privilege escalation vulnerabilities after a proof-of-concept tool leveraging them was publicly disclosed. According to the company, an attacker can combine the two bugs (CVE-2021-42287 and CVE-2021-42278) to “create a straightforward path to a Domain Admin user in an […]
System administrators, software providers and other IT professionals are now urged to patch another vulnerability in Log4j, this time a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability. The Apache Foundation released Log4j 2.17.0 late Friday, about a week after a critical remote code execution vulnerability was found in the popular logging tool that has impacted every corner of the […]
Cybersecurity services have been biased toward the big fish. Large enterprises have all the resources, budget and willingness to work with multiple, complex products that need integration and orchestration. The one-size-fits-all model typically includes everything the industry offers—a lot of which is probably not required by small- and medium-sized organizations. On top of that, SMBs […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the immediate online enrollment for two courses: Introduction to Open Source License Compliance Management (LFC193) and Fundamentals of Open Source IT and Cloud Computing (LFS200). The Introduction to Open Source License Compliance Management (LFC193) course explores the basic concepts and approaches needed for an open source compliance program. The two-hour online […]
LogMeIn, Inc., a Boston-based cloud-based solutions provider of LastPass, GoToConnect, GoToMeeting, and Rescue, is making its password management solution LastPass a standalone company. According to the company, LastPass is used by more than 30 million users and 85,000 businesses worldwide and is set for strong and sustained growth as consumers and businesses continue prioritizing password […]
Multiple governments have released a long list of IT vendors and their products that are impacted by the Log4j vulnerability, including the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Dutch National Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) The two agencies are maintaining running lists of vendors impacted by the vulnerability on their respective GitHub repositories, […]
As system administrators, cybersecurity experts and other IT professionals work around the clock to address the Log4j vulnerability, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe released a slew of security patches this week that address significant software flaws. Microsoft and Adobe followed the typical patch Tuesday cycle, releasing a total of 78 patches across products from the two […]
Boston-based ChaosSearch shared findings from its survey of 1,020 U.S. IT professionals on data retention, data usage, and investments in data lake and cloud data platforms. The findings show that IT talent may be wasted on moving, migrating, pipelining and transforming data—a process that can be automated to enable faster, more insightful analytics. The volume […]
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