April 2018

Cisco Patches Vulnerability in WebEx Cisco has just released a CVSS 9 rated update for its WebEx software. In their own words, the unpatched vulnerability “could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a targeted system.” The...

Casino Infiltrated through Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer Picture this: Jazzy music underscores George Clooney’s Danny Ocean pulling off another daring heist. He’s gathered his crew and it’s go time. Their entry point? A fish tank in the lobby. Okay, maybe...

Creating the Ultimate Patch Strategy Unpatched applications and systems not only expose security risks, they also open the door to data loss, corruption, and performance issues. Even with an understanding of best practices, it is still difficult to create a...

Most Companies Are Unprepared for the IoT Researchers at Ben-Gurion University warn that hackers have an unexpected resource in exploiting your environment: a Google search. IoT device manufactures set a default password for their devices, sometimes even sharing passwords between...

Manage Your Vulnerabilities As we explored in our Total Meltdown article, some updates actually made Windows 7 less secure in the last round of Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Even worse, some caused significant performance issues on older hardware models. Many industry...

Microsoft Ignores Deferral Settings, Forces Win10 Updates For the third time in the last few months, Microsoft pushed updates to Win10 machines that had deferral preferences set. Windows 10 versions 1507, 1511, 1607, and 1703 have been affected and pushed...

Users Love Ease of Use, Powerful Features and Reliable Support G2 Crowd recently released their Spring 2018 Reports. Syxsense was included in four unique lists, highlighting ease of product use and customer satisfaction: Grid® Report for Enterprise IT Management Suites,...

Total Meltdown Sometimes software updates cause more issues than they fix. Microsoft have made a major error in protecting Windows from Meltdown. Thanks to researcher Ulf Frisk, we are now aware that the January Patch Tuesday update has created new...