System administrators and other IT professionals are urged to apply Microsoft’s May 2021 security updates as threat actors are actively exploiting a previous vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said over the weekend that multiple threat actors are exploiting three ProxyShell Vulnerabilities, which could allow an attacker to install […]
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Microsoft this week published a blog post about how the IT giant is helping U.S. federal agencies adopt a Zero Trust architecture and comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity, and the company’s guidelines should be a framework for any organization to strive towards. The blog comes amid a heightened awareness of cybersecurity […]
A newly discovered vulnerability that could affect 83 million IoT devices allows an attacker to listen to live audio, watch real-time video data, compromise device credentials for further attacks or remotely control devices, according to new research. According to Mandiant, a subsidiary of cybersecurity firm FireEye, the IoT vulnerability is in the ThroughTek Kalay network, […]
The appeal of cloud computing is financial: rather than buying infrastructure, rent it. The problem with this financial solution is it distracts the cloud user from the responsibilities that remain after moving the applications out of the enterprise – responsibilities called systems management comprise IT Infrastructure and Operations, or I&O. This article reviews some of […]
System administrators, IT professionals and cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm over ransomware and the increasing frequency of attacks over the last few months, and their message is now beginning to be picked up by mainstream media. Ransomware is now rising to a national security level thanks to recent attacks against Colonial Pipeline, JBS […]
Much has been made of the vulnerabilities recently discovered in the Windows Print Spooler Service and Microsoft’s patches for the issue. Now, systems that remain unpatched are being attacked by ransomware operators. In a new report, Cisco Talos says a threat actor is exploiting those vulnerabilities – dubbed PrintNightmare – to spread laterally across a […]
IT teams across the globe faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 and 2021, and cybersecurity concerns are at – or near – the top of the list, leading to IT departments investing more in security, according to a new report from Sophos. The cybersecurity giant polled 5,400 IT managers across 30 countries and found that workloads […]
System operators within an electric utility control room are responsible for balancing and maintaining the grid and reliably providing critical resources to millions of people over a wide area. Failures in the electric grid, including downtime or malfunction, could mean life or death. In the mission-critical space of control rooms, systems need to be functioning […]
Microsoft’s August security patches include fixes for 44 vulnerabilities, including three zero days and one that is being actively exploited. The most important patches fix issues related to the Windows Print Spooler remote code execution vulnerability and the Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability and an actively exploited vulnerability in Windows Update Medic Service. Because of the […]
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